Our featured record this week is “Terrestrials” by beloved Australian psych pop/psych rock band POND.
With Terrestrials, their 11th record, POND—Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Shiny Joe Ryan, James Ireland, and Jamie Terry— offer a skerrick of hope in a hostile world. A cyclone of urgent, scorched earth rock’n’roll, Terrestrials tips the hat to the sounds of then while squarely facing up to the here and now. Conceived from a place of reverence for a particularly potent epoch in Oz rock, it mines the sound of open sky melancholia, heat haze sizzling on the plains and jangly pub backrooms that hits an eternally poignant nerve for anyone familiar with the sound, time and place.
The album twitches with the desperation of people and planet on the brink, but ultimately bets on the beauty of both to prevail. This time, the brief was simple: no fuzz pedals, no ballads, no “Pink Floyd shit.” The result? A record rooted in gritty, sun-scorched Australiana, fused with post-punk edge—think “goths at the pub” as the unlikely but perfect guiding principle.
The 10-track is out now on Mangovision via Secretly Distribution. Buy it here and stream it below.
Tracklist:
1. Skyworks
2. Casuarina
3. Through The Heather
4. Two Hands
5. Roebuck Plains
6. The Fatal Shore
7. Tourmaline
8. Terrestrials
9. Personal Hell
10. Nashville (I’m Dying)
Photo credit: Kristofski
