POND – 9 2x Deluxe Edition Silver Vinyl LP

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2x Deluxe Edition Silver Vinyl LPRelease Year: 2022Catalogue Number: STR025DLXLPBarcode: 0617308013559Record Grading: Mint (M)Sleeve Grading: Mint (M)Condition Note: Brand New Track Listing / 1. Song for Agnes2. Human Touch3. America’s Cup4. Take Me Avalon I’m Young5. Pink Lunettes6. Czech Locomotive7. Rambo8. Gold Cup / Plastic Sole9. Toast10. Lights of Leeming11. My Funny Serpentine12. The Tab Took My Baby Away13. Hang a Cross on Me In Pond’s universe nothing stays still for long. Although no one who heard 2019’s Tasmania could possibly describe it’s pulsating psych-pop as straight, Pond wanted to try a more spontaneous way of working for their next record. Taking 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. Given 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. It’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.