{"product_id":"pond-9-lp","title":"Pond - 9 [LP]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: STR025LP  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0710702338010\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 1st October 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie \u0026amp; Alt Rock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Pond’s universe nothing stays still for long. Although no one who heard 2019’s “Tasmania” could possibly describe its pulsating psych-pop as straight, Pond wanted to try a more spontaneous way of working for their next record.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTaking a leaf out of krautrock outliers Can’s book, at the start of 2020, Pond embarked on a series of totally off-the-cuff jam sessions from which songs and ideas could be pulled out.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGiven the pace at which ideas whizz past your head, it makes for a dizzying listen. Opener Song For Agnes explodes out the speakers like an intergalactic rock opera, running a synapse-tingling gauntlet through bubbling synth pop, 80s hair metal and blissed out saxophone before you know what’s hit you.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt’s an apposite curtain-raiser for an album that can encompass pounding techno (Human Touch), elastic hipped robofunk (America’s Cup), tripped out motorik (Czech Locomotive) and acres more besides without even topping for breath.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTake lead single Pink Lunettes, which opens up thumping like ESG eight hours into a session at Berghain before climbing aboard a gargantuan synthship and disappearing off over the horizon.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLyrically, too, 9 takes Pond into uncharted territory. Allbrook’s songs here take a more impressionistic tack than before, resulting in both the hilarious one-liners within Human Touch’s gonzoid thrash (sample lyric: “she was jacking a car but she seemed quite nice so I let her use the toilet in my place”) and the social and environmental concerns of blissed out closer Toast, which addressed both last year’s bush fires and the appalling wealth divide in Allbrook’s childhood home in Western Australia.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbove all though, what you get from “9” is a sense of creative abandon and just plain fun. If it was only a fraction as enjoyable to make as it is to listen to then they must have been having a hoot.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9 Tracklist:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Song for Anges\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Human Touch\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. America’s Cup\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Take Me Avalon I’m Young\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Pink Lunettes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6..Czech Locomotive\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. Rambo\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8.. Gold Cup \/ Plastic Sole\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9.Toast\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spinning Top","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39944808169628,"sku":"STR025LP","price":25.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_78238bf1-c7ba-4b8e-b538-d0f81e73776b.jpg?v=1621483539","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/pond-9-lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}