Pond – Terrestrials (Seabird Blue Vinyl)

With Terrestrial, their eleventh album, Australian five-piece POND deliver a burst of defiant energy in an increasingly hostile world. Urgent and scorched, the record channels the spirit of classic rock’n’roll while facing the tensions of the present head-on.

Shaped by a deep affection for a particularly potent strain of Australian rock, Terrestrial evokes wide-open melancholy, shimmering heat rising off the land, and the clatter of pub backrooms. Like much of POND’s catalogue, it is an album about people and place, and the shifting ways the two collide, shape one another, and endure.

Terrestrial is charged with the anxiety of a world and a planet under strain, yet it ultimately places its faith in the beauty of both.