POND ANNOUNCE UK & EUROPEAN TOUR DATES 2015
POND Announce UK + European Tour For February + March 2015
New album ‘Man It Feels Like Space Again’ released 26th January 2015 through Caroline Records
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“Pond, the whacked-out Australian collective who switch from Sabbathy riffing to Beatlesque psych pop at the drop of a pick” Time Out
“From sleazy rock excess, to introspective, cracked psychedelia and back again” Fader
“Pond…are very good at nailing tracks with best-of-both worlds approach, fusing those indulgent chunks of far-outness with fundamentally solid rock’n’roll tunes.” Pitchfork
“brain-bending, dumb, brilliant rock ‘n’ roll” NME
Following hot on the heels of their dynamite KEXP session last week, Australian psych rockers POND have announced a full UK and European tour for February and March 2015.
Watch their rocking 3-track KEXP session here
If you’ve ever seen a POND live show, you’ll know what a quasi-religious devotion-inspiring balls out rock n roll show it is. For those fortunate to be at London’s KOKO last summer, POND transformed the audience into a heaving sea of psych heads, wildly leaping around to the likes of old favourites ‘XanMan’ and ‘You Broke My Cool’ as well as hearing ‘Elvis’ Flaming Star’ for the first time. Full details of the live shows are as follows, with POND moving up to play London’s Electric Ballroom on 25th February. Tickets go on sale 9am Friday 28th November from [insert link]
Even if you’re from the most insular, incestuous musical scene in the most isolated city on the planet, people will still stand up and take notice if the music you make is as good as POND’s.
Come 26th January 2015, the world will get to experience the band’s new album, ‘Man It Feels Like Space Again’ – their most striking statement to date.
Hailing from Perth, Australia, POND formed in 2008 as an all-inclusive, ego-free collective spawned from numerous other interlocked bands and projects: Mink Mussel Creek, Allbrook/Avery, and Tame Impala.
Over a couple of months Nick, Joe, Jay, Jamie, Lukas, Cam and a parade of friends and well-wishers cobbled together a mountain of tape that was stitched up to become POND’s sixth studio album. “It had already been worked out,” Nick Allbrook notes, “but in the spirit of impulsiveness and lunacy it got shattered and scattered and pissed on and blow-dried in a small studio in Collingwood, Melbourne.”
‘Man It Feels Like Space Again’ lives up to the inherent wonder in its title, a sweeping collection of warm, warped psychedelic gems. It brings to mind the work of The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, mid-‘70s Lennon, MGMT, Todd Rundgren, Supergrass and any number of other genre-hopping sonic/space-explorers.
In its 45 minutes, the album covers an extraordinary amount of ground. Opener ‘Waiting Around For Grace’ sounds like an FM pop hit beamed in from a nearby planet, all wonky propulsion and giddy hooks – the perfect opening blast. Lead single, ‘Elvis’ Flaming Star’ stomps like a ‘70s glam band coached by Bowie, before collapsing into and out of a mid-tune daydream.
Watch the lively video for ‘Elvis’ Flaming Star’:
Elsewhere on the record there are blissed-out ballads (‘Sitting Up On Our Crane’, ‘Holding Out For You’), twisted, futuristic raves (‘Zond’), lysergic epics drenched in reverb (‘Heroic Shart’), and the gorgeous 6/8 classic ‘Medicine Hat’.
By the time you hit the finale: the out-of-control, ever-shifting eight-minute title track, it definitely feels like space… again, man.
‘Man It Feels Like Space Again’ out 26th January 2015. Available for pre-order now.
‘Man It Feels Like Space Again’ – Album Track listing:
Waiting Around For Grace
Elvis’ Flaming Star
Holding Out For You
Zond
Heroic Shart
Sitting Up On Our Crane
Outside Is The Right Side
Medicine Hat
Man It Feels Like Space Again
POND 2015 UK + European live dates:
February
20 Fri UK SHEFFIELD Leadmill
23 Mon SCOTLAND GLASGOW Oran Mor
24 Tue UK BIRMINGHAM The Library
25 Wed UK LONDON Electric Ballroom
26 Thu UK MANCHESTER Academy 2
27 Fri UK BRISTOL Fleece
March
1 Sun FRANCE PARIS La Maroquinerie
2 Mon GERMANY KOLN Blue Shell
4 Wed BELGIUM OPWIJK Nijdrop
5 Thu GERMANY LORRACH Between The Beats Festival
6 Fri ITALY BOLOGNA Covo
9 Mon GERMANY HAMBURG Molotow Bar
10 Tue DENMARK COPENHAGEN Pumpehuset
11 Wed NORWAY OSLO Vulkan Arena
12 Thu SWEDEN STOCKHOLM Kagelbanan