Overview
- Pond confirmed Wednesday the album Terrestrials for June 19 on Mangovision via Secretly Distribution and released the lead single Two Hands with a Kristofski co-directed video.
- Frontman Nick Allbrook says Two Hands confronts mining giant Rio Tinto’s destruction of Western Australia’s Juukan Gorge rock shelters, which researchers dated through a 46,000-year cultural record.
- The group set strict rules for the record with no fuzz pedals, no ballads, and no “Pink Floyd shit,” aiming for a darker, gothy post-punk feel rooted in 1980s Australian pub rock.
- The band mapped a North American run from July 10 in Atlanta to September 22 in Los Angeles, including a July 24 Toronto date and select shows with Djo, with general tickets on sale Friday, April 10 at 10 a.m. local time.
- The Two Hands video was filmed in rural Western Australia with dust-and-engines, Mad Max–style imagery, while Spin reports multi-instrumentalist Jay Watson will juggle Tame Impala and Pond tour duties this summer.