Manganese lands on June 9th.
Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Pond frontman Nicholas Allbrook has announced the release of a new solo album.
Manganese is set for release on June 9th through longtime label Spinning Top Records and was produced by Allbrook and HOKO, with mixing duties helmed by longstanding collaborator Jay Watson of Gum, Pond and Tame Impala fame.
Preceded by its shimmering and bass-driven leading single ‘Jackie’, Allbrook explains of the song
“This song is about my friend (whose name isn’t Jackie) who died in 2021. She was fantastic and the news left me with familiar feelings of guilt and regret and ‘why didn’t I do more or know better’. I don’t usually get hit with creative bolts while running, but by the canal once in London I was struck with the hopeful image of her rowing away from the earth that had been so hurtful and hard, on a black lake surrounded by stars, finally finding peace and silence. It felt nice to think about death like that, bathed in pale silver light rather than just cold.
I got lots of instrumental help from Nathaniel Hoho, who bizarrely and brilliantly put in the nature documentary voice about the giant panda which should never work but somehow does.”
Allbrook’s last solo album Wabi sabi bruto bruta released in 2019, whilst Pond’s latest full-length album 9 arrived in 2021.
Hear and watch an accompanying visual for ‘Jackie’ in advance below.
Manganese
1 ‘Commodore’
2 ‘Babbel’
3 ‘Manganese’
4 ‘Jackie’
5 ‘The Endless Jetty’
6 ‘Vale the Chord’
7 ‘Mazda’
8 ‘Round Round the Moon and All’
9 ‘The Night Before You Flew’
Manganese releases on June 9th via Spinning Top Records. Pre-order the album limited signed orange vinyl here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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