Name: 9
Brand: Pond

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Catalogue number

STR025DLXLP

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Silver

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Metallic Silver

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format detail

Deluxe Double 180 Gram Vinyl with Four Extra Tracks. Etching, Gatefold Sleeve on Holographic Card,12 Page Booklet.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-07-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0617308013559

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Total Cap

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

STR025CD

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Digipack with 8 Page Booklet.

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2021-10-08

0710702338027

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

STR025LP

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Black

Download code: Yes

180 Gram Vinyl.

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0710702338010

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

Artist

Pond

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Spinning Top

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.

Spinning Top is a record label based in Fremantle, Western Australia. With a focus on nurturing and promoting emerging talent, Spinning Top has become a prominent force in the music industry. The label prides itself on its diverse roster of *artists* who span various genres and styles.

Founded by *name*, Spinning Top has quickly gained recognition for its commitment to quality music. The label's dedication to supporting local artists has helped put Fremantle on the map as a hub for musical creativity.

With an impressive catalogue of releases, Spinning Top continues to push boundaries and challenge conventions. From indie rock to electronic pop, their *performers* captivate audiences with their unique soundscapes and thought-provoking lyrics.

Back In Stock

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 robofunk (America’s Cup), tripped out motorik (Czech Locomotive) and acres more besides without even stopping 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 GB

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