Pond – The Weather (2017)

Australian psych rockers Pond share members with Tame Impala, as well as a penchant for arena-sized 1970s rock. Their new album mixes bright synths, campy detours, and grim lyrics.

The two bands share a penchant for grand, arena-sized music that carries the torch for 1970s classic rock. But where Parker is sedate onstage, Pond combine feral enthusiasm with goofy recklessness, their baroque suites draped in punkish basement-show charm. (Think Queen dressed up as the Replacements or vice-versa.) Pond also keeps threatening to release a record that rivals rock’s all-time classics—creatively if not commercially speaking—and their seventh album, The Weather, is a tantalizing attempt.

01. 30000 Megatons
02. Sweep Me off My Feet
03. Paint Me Silver
04. Colder Than Ice
05. Edge of the World, Pt. 1
06. A / B
07. Zen Automaton
08. All I Want for Xmas (Is a Tascam 388)
09. Edge of the World, Pt. 2
10. The Weather

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