Name: 9
Brand: Pond

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

STR025lp-C5

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Colour

Green

Colour details

Clear Green Vinyl

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Discogs ID

[r20544952]

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

180-gram vinyl.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

710702338058

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: No / green

STR025DLX

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Silver

Metallic Silver Vinyl

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Deluxe Edition

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2022-07-15

617308013559

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2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / silver

STR025lp

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Black

Extended format: No

180-gram vinyl

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2021-10-29

710702338010

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

STR025lp-C1

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Coke Bottle Vinyl

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Indie Exclusive. 180-gram vinyl.

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2021-10-22

710702337990

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / green

STR025cd

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710702338027

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Pond

Genre US

New Psyche & Psyche Rock

Label US

Spinning Top Records

Australian band from Perth, Pond is a highly acclaimed group with close connections to the popular band Tame Impala. Known for their unique sound and captivating live performances, Pond has gained a loyal fan base worldwide.
Formed in 2008, the band consists of members Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Joe Ryan, Jamie Terry, and James Ireland. With their experimental approach to music and fearless exploration of different genres, Pond has carved out their own distinct musical identity.
Over the years, Pond has released several critically acclaimed albums including "Beard Wives Denim," "Hobo Rocket," and "The Weather." Their music seamlessly blends elements of psychedelic rock, indie pop, and electronic sounds resulting in an immersive sonic experience.

Vinyl variants, bonus material and signed editions exclusively available from Rough Trade.

In Pond’s universe nothing stays still for long. Although no one who heard 2019’s “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 Can’s 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 head, it makes for a dizzying listen. Opener Song For Agnes explodes out the speakers like an intergalactic rock opera, running a synapse-tingling gauntlet through bubbling synth pop, 80s hair metal and blissed out saxophone before you know what’s hit you. 

It’s an apposite curtain-raiser for an album that can encompass pounding techno (Human Touch), elastic hipped robo-funk (America’s Cup), tripped out motorik (Czech Locomotive) and acres more besides without even topping for breath. Take lead single Pink Lunettes, which opens up thumping like ESG eight hours into a session at Berghain before climbing aboard a gargantuan synthship and disappearing off over the horizon.

Lyrically, too, 9 takes Pond into uncharted territory. Allbrook’s songs here take a more impressionistic tack than before, resulting in both the hilarious one-liners within Human Touch’s gonzoid thrash (sample lyric: “she was jacking a car but she seemed quite nice so I let her use the toilet in my place”) and the social and environmental concerns of blissed out closer Toast, which addressed both last year’s bush fires and the appalling wealth divide in Allbrook’s childhood home in Western Australia.

Above all though, what you get from 9 is a sense of creative abandon and just plain fun. If it was only a fraction as enjoyable to make as it is to listen to then they must have been having a hoot.

Music US

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