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Friday, October 14, 2022

POND RELEASE LIVE AT THE BBC EP

ON TOUR IN NORTH AMERICA THIS NOVEMBER & DECEMBER

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Today, Australian psych legends Pond release their new EP, Live At The BBC. LISTEN HERE. The session was originally recorded for the Marc Riley show on BBC6 Music. “The BBC is still magic,” says lead singer Nicholas Allbrook. “I still get giddy walking past those Derbyshire-Churchill-Fab4 spirits. We all get nostalgic for a time and place 1000 light years from my mortal innings. Now we also live at the BBC, like my nameless-faceless childhood heroes.” The EP kicks off with “Take Me Avalon I’m Young” from their most recent album, 9. “This was the second time doing a session for Marc Rileys show. We loved it. When we heard the mix we were really happy with how it sounded,” said Allbrook. “"Take Me Avalon" is honestly one of my favorite songs to play live at the moment. It sort of exerts its own uplifting energizing force on me despite the before or the after. Even inside headphones in a brightly lit studio in the morning it felt real energetic.” The EP also features the tracks “America’s Cup,” “Human Touch” and “Toast.”

Fresh from their iconic Desert Daze performance, Pond will return to North America for their first full tour since 2019 this fall. The dates kick off this November in DC with stops in NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and more. See below for a full rundown of dates. Tickets are on sale now.

Pond recently covered the Iconic classic, Rain, by Dragon for triple j’s Like A Version and released a deluxe edition of their album 9 via Spinning Top Records. The album featured four brand new tracks including the prog-pop “My Funny Serpentine” and the dance-floor ready single “Hang A Cross on Me.” Originally released in October 2021 and produced by Pond and mixed by Jay Watson and James Ireland, on 9, Pond’s explorations are funneled into electrifying bursts of pure psych-pop joy. No tune even veers past the five minute mark. Above all though, what you get from the album is a sense of creative abandon and just plain fun. On 9, Pond recaptures an anarchic sense of uncertainty and fly closer than ever before to the creative supernova that has blazed across so much of the band’s music.

Originally formed in the turn of the 2010’s, as “a Royal Trux-cum-Cream power trio,” fronted by Allbrook with Jay Watson and Joe Ryan, Pond added Jamie Terry shortly afterwards, with James Ireland later rounding out the irrepressible five-piece. Ever prolific, Pond boasts an impressive nine studio albums in their ever expanding repertoire.

Pond possesses an ever-expanding performance resumé, having toured with Arctic Monkeys, MGMT and Flaming Lips. They have stunned at premiere musical festivals around the world including Glastonbury, Coachella, Primavera, Bonnaroo, Reading and Leeds, The Governors Ball, South by Southwest, St Jerome’s Laneway, Splendour in the Grass and more. They have sold out countless venues around the globe from New York’s Bowery Ballroom to Paris’ La Gaite Lyrique and London’s O2 Forum.