‘America’s Cup’ joins the recently released ‘Pink Lunettes’ on the Australian band’s forthcoming LP.
Australia’s celebrated and chameleonic Pond have revealed details of their forthcoming ninth album. The aptly entitled 9 is penned for release on October 1st via independent label Spinning Top Music.
The funk-indebted swagger of ‘America’s Cup’ leads the album’s announcement and deftly showcases the disparity likely to be on offer within the looming project when compared with its recent, frenetic predecessor ‘Pink Lunettes‘.
Speaking of 9‘s creation frontman Nick Allbrook explains,
“We sort of gave ourselves permission to make something stuffed this time. We’d settled into a pretty tight routine with the last few albums and wanted to shake a boat with this so we started off with filling a few tape reels with some absolutely heinous improvised sonic babble which, after much sifting, became the first few songs of the album. We also wanted to up the tempo.
The last few albums have a neat little mantra or repetitive theme. If I was forced to find something like that in 9, I guess it would be ‘biography’ or ‘observation’ — a lot of the lyrics seem to focus on single people’s lives, or the lives of small moments or small things when you zoom real close up and they reveal something deeper. Stuff like my cheap Chinese slippers, or a soiled teddy bear, or Agnes Martin (not to put them in the same category, although maybe Agnes would’ve appreciated it). In the Rorschach test of re-reading lyrics, one thing that sticks out is a fixation on leaving behind a time of golden optimism and uncynical abandon. We can’t look at ourselves the same anymore, and the world we’ve built provides a scary lense for viewing our past.”
Hear ‘America’s Cup’ below.
9
1. ‘Song For Anges’
2. ‘Human Touch’
3. ‘America’s Cup’
4. ‘Take Me Avalon I’m Young’
5. ‘Pink Lunettes’
6. ‘Czech Locomotive’
7. ‘Rambo’
8. ‘Gold Cup/Plastic Sole’
9. ‘Toast’
9 releases on October 1st via Spinning Top Music. Pre-order the album here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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