Pond - 9In Ponds universe nothing stays still for long. Although no one who heard 2019s Tasmania could possibly describe its 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 Cans 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

The bands ambitious nature begins to reveal itself with Ummagumma-era Pink Floyd

GospelbeacH is back with a set of great new songs

‰ÛÏFreedom/Warm Hands‰۝ puts the ‰ÛÏsweet‰۝ back into suite

psych and garage rock

leading children astray

Zebra proves they were ‰ÛÏWasted‰۝ with a soul-inflected groove

is set to three tracks from Thom’s new album

Like an Inexplicable Wheel' The strangest thing in life is time

have done it again

Masterful layers of composition are bathed in familiar atmospheric vocals but a new sensibility is deeply present

and as it was intended

‘Forget about all that business stuff