Pond make Terrestrials stare at mining, collapse and the fuzz pedal’s ghost

Pond’s Terrestrials gets reviewed on 19 June, and it sounds like the band are once again trying to stuff a whole ecosystem into a psych-rock machine. The Australian group’s latest reportedly digs into environmental collapse, corporate greed and Australian identity, especially the uneasy relationship between natural landscape and extractive industry. That is a strong thematic frame, even if the music remains recognisably Pond: punchy, urgent, glammy, crunchy and still haunted by the ghost of mid-2010s psych-rock signatures. The interesting detail is that the band recorded without their signature fuzz pedals, which is either a bold experiment or a very Pond way of proving that the fuzz was inside them all along. Terrestrials seems tangled, ambitious and overloaded with local detail. In other words, very much a record about a planet where everything is already too much.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/pond-terrestrials/