Pond today reveal news of their latest album Terrestrials, out on Jun 19 on their own newly coined imprint Mangovision via Secretly Distribution, alongside a stream of headline dates in the US this July-September. Marking the announcement is their latest single and video ‘Two Hands’. LISTEN + WATCH HERE + PRE-SAVE LP HERE.

Speaking about new single ‘Two Hands’, Nicholas Allbrook shares “This song is about when mining company Rio Tinto blew up Juukun Gorge in the Hammersley Range in Western Australia. They destroyed sacred rock shelters that were of the highest archaeological, cultural and spiritual significance. The rock shelters contained a cultural sequence spanning 46,000 years that had been taken care of by the local Indigenous communities. I was wondering how the commentators around this country would’ve reacted if the shoe was on the other foot and someone had demolished the Vatican or Notre Dame or St. Paul’s because it was in the way of their corporate expansion. Anyway, its a little word of encouragement that you’ve got every right to be very fucking angry about this injustice.”

Ceremoniously distilling the forthcoming record’s intent into a playful caricature through ‘Two Hands’s music video, Allbrook continues, “The video was made by us and Sam Kristofski (with heaps of help from Tess Thompson, Kate Green and Christian Dillon). We filmed it in York and the Beverley Offroad Motorsports Association on one of the hottest days of the summer. Az was tough enough to wear full leathers the whole time. Endless thanks to him and Ry for fully embodying the soul of this video with their enduring passion for dust, rust, black cans, circlework and fucked up old motorcars.”

WATCH: ‘Two Hands’ (Official Video)

The group of Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Joe Ryan, Jamie Terry, and James Ireland, exist to create – the myriad of crossovers between their projects individually and the scene they first put on the map continues today – and that pursuit is set to persist forever no doubt. Yet for the first time in Pond’s history, the recording process on their 11th was subject to a simple set of rules: No fuzz pedal. No ballads. No “Pink Floyd shit”. 

Conceived from a place of reverence for a particularly potent epoch in Oz rock, Terrestrials mines the sound of open sky melancholia, heat haze sizzling on the plains and jangly pub backrooms that hits an eternally poignant nerve for anyone familiar with the sound, time and place. From there Terrestrialsevolved and the idea of “Goths at the pub” became the record’s stylistic north star – iconic 80s Australiana being acid-washed with the eyeliner-stained post-punk of Sisters Of Mercy, Magazine and the like. “Would Goths like it?” “Could you have a beer to this?” If the answers were yes it was thrust into the mix.

Like much of the Pond catalogue, Terrestrials is a record of people and place, of exploring the identity of each, as well as where and how they intersect and interact. Extractive capitalism, power dynamics, inequality, Indigenous incarceration, eccentric outcasts, fire and water, diesel and dust, unity and division, blood and bauxite, unborn tomorrows and dead yesterdays – it’s all there. Terrestrials twitches with the desperation of people and planet on the brink, but ultimately bets on the beauty of both to prevail.

Earlier Pond shared the title track to support across triple j, Stereogum, NME, The Line Of Best Fit and more remarking on the song’s “strutting, preening glam-rock/new wave energy”. Following on from the announcement of their US dates supporting Djo – the musical project of actor, producer, and songwriter Joe Keery, known for his work in Stranger Things and Fargo – Pond today announce a stream of headline shows across the US this July-September and will also appear locally at Against the Grain Festival in Brisbane in June, with more Australian shows to be announced. Pre-sale is available now with general tickets on sale from Friday 10 April @ 10am local via pond.band. See all tour routing details BELOW.