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Pond Share New Single “Through The Heather” Ahead of Terrestrials
Pond have shared “Through The Heather,” the latest preview of Terrestrials, ahead of their June 19 album release and US tour.
Pond have rolled out another piece of their next album campaign with the release of “Through The Heather”, a song the Australian psych rock band have described as “melancholic” and “searching”.
The track arrives as the group gear up for their 11th studio album, Terrestrials, due June 19 through their own Mangovision imprint, with pre-order here. It follows the record’s title track and “Two Hands”, both of which have already set the frame for what’s coming next.
According to the band, “Through The Heather” began taking shape on last year’s European tour, when drummer James “Gin” Ireland was experimenting in Ableton. The finished song leans into gently twinkling guitars and a dreamily melodic synth line, a combination that suits the title a little too well for Pond to have planned it that neatly.
Frontman Nicholas Allbrook, never one to keep things too clean or too reverent, offered his own sideways explanation of the track’s life in the van: “Sometimes rock and roll is a glamorous game baby, but mainly it isn’t. Funny that such a beautiful, melancholic, searching song was born surrounded by chip packets and track pants in a van full of filthy pigs.”
He continued: “We had so much fun making the spring reverb thunderclaps, giving the spring a cheeky little pinch to make it go BOOM, looking out over the Indian ocean from our porch/studio in Seabird while MasterChef played silently in the corner. Let that be a lesson to all you young rockers ok? Can’t get too inspiring ya know. Gotta keep a lid on it. Chucking on the telly or making a samwich or having a nap should do it.”
Terrestrials arrives with a 10-song tracklist that includes “Skyworks”, “Casuarina”, “Through The Heather”, “Two Hands”, “Roebuck Plains”, “The Fatal Shore”, “Tourmaline”, “Terrestrials”, “Personal Hell” and “Nashville (I’m Dying)”.
Pond’s last album was Stung! in 2024, following 2021’s 9. In a four-star review of that record, Rhys Buchanan wrote for NME: “It can be a risky game to throw yourself into so many different styles on a record, let alone within individual songs. Yet – from Bowie to Kurt Cobain and William Burroughs – artists of all kinds have found joy in such surrealist methods of cutting up their work and putting it back together.
“Having perhaps taken their psych-pop to the edges of what’s possible, Pond deserve this moment. Hopefully, it proves a gateway to a new era for the band that keeps on giving.”
The band will also be on the road in the US from July through September, with several dates set in support of Djo. Tickets are available here.
The tour includes shows in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Forest Hills, Portland, Lewiston, Toronto, Richmond, Nashville, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Austin, Dallas and Los Angeles, stretching from July 10 at Terminal West in Atlanta to September 22 at The Bellwether in Los Angeles. The Pittsburgh, Forest Hills, Portland, Lewiston and Richmond dates are marked with an asterisk as Djo support slots.
