Pond Announce 10th Album 'Stung!' With New Single (I'm) Stung, Confirm Australian Tour
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Michael Tartaglia
Pond have announced their 10th studio album.
The follow-up to 2021's '9' is titled 'Stung!' and will arrive through Spinning Top Records on June 21. Alongside the news, the Australian band have shared the new airy, psych-rock song (I'm) Stung, which follows the January single Neon River in previewing the record. Commenting on it, frontman Nick Allbrook said:
"I wrote most of this while mowing someone’s lawn. I went home and put my fingers on the piano and pretty much played the base of it first go. This is a very rare and special treat and buoyed me for weeks. It’s funny because I had a mad crush on someone, and they dropped me like a sack of shit and this song just flew down and clocked me right in the forehead and I felt totally better. Then Gin and Gum added all their magic - cool sounds, passing chords.
"It's about being totally pathetically stung by someone and just having to be cool with it being unrequited. Being resilient, accepting that you are a bit of a goose, but life goes on."
Head below to view the track's accompanying video, which was filmed in Western Australia by Chris Adams. Allbrook added: "We went to Lancelin, one of the most stereotypically Western Australian looking places in Western Australia, armed with a super 8 camera, 12 tubes of silver body paint and a rock eisteddfod wardrobe.
"Nothing but the blistering heat and dehydration and a battalion of legendary holidaymakers in ATVs stood between us and cinema history. Our friend Chris Adams also put on his little “filmic auteur” cap and carried our shit around while we cavorted among the dunes dressed like a knock off NSYNC. Omg and the bee!! The bee obviously makes it. Nick kind of lost his mind in the endless whiteness and started fearfully battling the beast in the sky. Probably all the paint fumes."
The quintet will begin a European tour in late September, which will call in Southampton, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol and London.
They also have US dates in the diary for May, and new Australian tour dates scheduled for June and July. Tickets for the latter shows go on general sale at 12pm local time tomorrow (March 28). All other dates are on sale now.
'Stung!' tracklist:
1. Constant Picnic
2. (I'm) Stung
3. Neon River
4. So Lo
5. Black Lung
6. Sunrise For The Lonely
7. Elf Bar Blues
8. Edge of the World Pt. 3
9. Stars In Silken Sheets
10. Boys Don't Crash
11. O, UV Ray
12. Last Elvis
13. Elephant Gun
14. Fell From Grace With The Sea
POND Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Wed May 01 2024 - NASHVILLE Tennessee - Basement East (USA)
Thu May 02 2024 - ASHEVILLE North Carolina - Orange Peel (USA)
Sat May 04 2024 - ATLANTA Georgia - Terminal West (USA)
Tue May 07 2024 - AUSTIN Texas - Mohawk (USA)
Wed May 08 2024 - HOUSTON Texas - Downstairs at White Oak Music Hall - Complex (USA)
Thu May 09 2024 - DALLAS Texas - Trees (USA)
Sat May 11 2024 - DENVER Colorado - Ogden Theatre (USA)
Wed May 15 2024 - OAKLAND California - New Parish (USA)
Thu May 16 2024 - LOS ANGELES California - Lodge Room (USA)
Fri May 17 2024 - SAN DIEGO California - Observatory North Park (USA)
Sat May 18 2024 - SANTA ANA California - Observatory Santa Ana (USA)
Fri June 14 2024 - SYDNEY Carriageworks
Sat June 15 2024 - HOBART Altar
Thu June 27 2024 - ADELAIDE Lion Arts Factory
Fri June 28 2024 - MELBOURNE Northcote Theatre
Sat June 29 2024 - WOOLLOONGABBA Princess Theatre
Sat July 06 2024 - PERTH Freo Social
Tue September 24 2024 - SOUTHAMPTON Papillon
Thu September 26 2024 - MANCHESTER Gorilla
Fri September 27 2024 - LEEDS Wardrobe
Sat September 28 2024 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Grove
Sun September 29 2024 - GLASGOW King Tuts
Tue October 01 2024 - BIRMINGHAM XOYO
Wed October 02 2024 - BRISTOL Thekla
Thu October 03 2024 - LONDON Electric Ballroom
Sat October 05 2024 - PARIS Le Trabendo (France)
Sun October 06 2024 - BRUSSELS Botanique (Belgium)
Mon October 07 2024 - AMSTERDAM Paradiso (Netherlands)
Tue October 08 2024 - COLOGNE Burgerhaus Stollwerck (Germany)
Thu October 10 2024 - BERLIN Hole44 (Germany)
Fri October 11 2024 - HAMBURG Fabrik (Germany)
Sun October 13 2024 - COPENHAGEN Vega (Germany)
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