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Pond biography

Pond are a psychedelic rock band hailing from Perth, Australia. The core members are Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson and Joseph Ryan, who formed in 2008 to make whatever music they wanted to make with whoever they wanted to make it with.

This is a band for whom horizons are meaningless. It’s not even entirely accurate to call them a band, since the members of the band past the core trio are so numerous and fleeting that it’s more accurate to call them a collective. One fuelled by camaraderie, creative spirit and copious amounts of psychedelics.

Two of the core trio haven’t even full time members of the band for the length of time they’ve been together. Pond are arguably the sister group of Tame Impala, since Watson was practically a founding member of them, who still drums with them to this day. Allbrook was also a member of Kevin Parker’s band until 2013, when he quit in order to continue focusing on Pond.

However, Pond had already been together for two years when Tame Impala’s “Innerspeaker” album was released and the attention levelled on Kevin Parker’s band also found its way to Allbrook, Watson and Ryan’s band as well.

They’d used their time constructively, since in those two years they’d written, recorded and released three albums, January 2009’s “Psychedelic Mango”, June 2009’s “Corridors of Blissterday” and May 2010’s “Frond”. 2010 also saw the recording of their breakthrough album “Beard, Wives, Denim”, but the album wouldn’t see release until 2012.

With that album’s release the NME named them “The Hottest New Band In The World” and in terms of activity it’s hard to disagree. They’ve since released another album, 2013’s “Hobo Rocket” and become one of the most acclaimed live acts in the world.

Any rock fan should seek out this band for whom the sky’s the limit, they’re nearing the top of their game, and look set to be something very special indeed.

Live reviews

Ich hab ihn auf jeden Fall schon mal live gesehen. Schade, dass er nicht noch mal in Deutschland/in Berlin oder so spielt Sachsen oder Sachsen-Anhalt auch cool wäre. Hoffe auf jeden Fall, dass er auch mal in der Nähe von Thüringen, Auftritt, sonst an sich Atmosphäre alles perfekt

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When most bands form they have a set idea of which genre direction they want to explore or even the sort of bands they want to emulate. When Australian band Pond joined forces in 2008, their only direction was that they wanted to play whatever music they could work into a collaborative project. Releasing their debut album in early 2009 entitled ‘Psychedelic Mango’ delved into psychedelic rock whilst incorporating elements of pop and full of feel good tracks. A band always up for a challenge, they wrote and recorded their second album ‘Corridors of Blissterday’ in five days and released it five months later, which they recorded live with an eight piece band. A year later came their third album ‘Frond’ which was even poppier than any of their other releases. Their breakthrough came when the side project of some of the members’ album ‘Innerspeaker’ went into the Australian charts at number four. This was great exposure for Pond as their fourth album ‘Beard, Wives, Denim’ received much critical acclaim and gave them the opportunity to tour America. In 2012, NME magazine named Pond as ‘The Hottest New Band in the World’ and went on to play SXSW festival and support Arctic Monkeys on their Australian tour. You really get a sense of what Pond are when they perform live. With their hippy shoe-gazing demeanour on stage they create a great electric ambiance with plenty of guitar distortion and inspired psychedelic melodies. It’s hard to not fall in love and be taken aback by Pond, with so much energy and lots of catchy tunes they are simply mesmerising. This band can do no wrong.

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