Description
Double metallic silver colored vinyl LP pressing. In Pond”s universe nothing stays still for long. Although no one who heard 2019”s Tasmania could possibly describe it”s pulsating psych-pop as straight, Pond wanted to try a more spontaneous way of working for their next record. Taking a leaf out of krautrock outliers Can”s book, at the start of 2020, Pond embarked on a series of totally off-the-cuff jam sessions from which songs and ideas could be pulled out. Given the pace at which ideas whizz past your head, it makes for a dizzying listen. Opener Song For Agnes explodes out the speakers like an intergalactic rock opera, running a synapse-tingling gauntlet through bubbling synth pop, 80s hair metal and blissed out saxophone before you know what”s hit you. It”s an apposite curtain-raiser for an album that can encompass pounding techno (Human Touch), elastic hipped robofunk (America”s Cup), tripped out motorik (Czech Locomotive) and acres more besides without even topping for breath.
- A
- 1 Song for Agnes
- 2 Human Touch
- 3 America”s Cup
- 4 Take Me Avalon I”m Young
- 5 Pink Lunettes
- 6 Czech Locomotive
- 7 Rambo
- 8 Gold Cup / Plastic Sole
- 9 Toast
- B
- 1 Lights of Leeming
- 2 My Funny Serpentine
- 3 The Tab Took My Baby Away
- 4 Hang a Cross on Me
