Pond to return with new album, Terrestrials

Terrestrials follows the Australian psych-rock band's 2024 album Stung!, with "Two Hands" arriving after title track "Terrestrials", released last month.

Speaking about the new song, singer Nick Allbrook says: “This song is about when mining company Rio Tinto blew up Juukun Gorge in the Hammersley Range in Western Australia. They destroyed sacred rock shelters that were of the highest archaeological, cultural and spiritual significance.

"The rock shelters contained a cultural sequence spanning 46, 000 years that had been taken care of by the local Indigenous communities. I was wondering how the commentators around this country would've reacted if the shoe was on the other foot and someone had demolished the Vatican or Notre Dame or St. Paul’s because it was in the way of their corporate expansion. Anyway, its a little word of encouragement that you’ve got every right to be very fucking angry about this injustice.”

Discussing the music video, Allbrook continues: “The video was made by us and Sam Kristofski (with heaps of help from Tess Thompson, Kate Green and Christian Dillon). We filmed it in York and the Beverley Offroad Motorsports Association on one of the hottest days of the summer. Az was tough enough to wear full leathers the whole time. Endless thanks to him and Ry for fully embodying the soul of this video with their enduring passion for dust, rust, black cans, circlework and fucked up old motorcars.”

Terrestrials sees the band explore people, places, and their interactions. Now on their eleventh album, Pond have formed the album's sound around the idea of "Goths at the pub", with a straightforward process of no fuzz pedals, ballads, and no "Pink Floyd shit".

Terrestrials artwork

Terrestrials tracklist

"Skyworks"
"Casuarina"
"Through The Heather"
"Two Hands"
"Roebuck Plains"
"The Fatal Shore"
"Tourmaline"
"Terrestrials"
"Personal Hell"
"Nashville (I’m Dying)"