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We have the third single from POND’s upcoming Stung! and it’s a bloody doozy.

With their Aussie tour looming, POND have today returned with a track that feels like the lovechild of Prince and Hot Chocolate with a bit of… I dunno.. The Voidz(?) thrown in there. It’s a one of those tracks that will pick you up even if, say, you’re sitting at your desk attempting to write about music with a terrible hangover.

According to frontman Nicholas Allbrook, the track is part comedy, part tragedy, with moments of silliness an solemness interweaving. “I think Gum was just messing around on guitar playing something fun and cheesy and then realised it could be cool in a kind of cold, concrete, No-Wave way. I wrote the line about white dreads while waiting for a bus in Tottenham – maybe there were some hippies around, maybe there weren’t, who can really say where hippies are or aren’t at any given time…”

“The words were “all these tablets got me breaking in two” but when I first double tracked the vocals they were a bit out of time and gum thought I said, “these tummy tablets got me breaking in two” which made us laugh, and thus, by the laws of Pond, became official. Some of the lyrics are sad honestly, about watching your future as you’d imagined it evaporate before your eyes – being haunted by “a child as brittle as paper”. Gum thought I was saying “horny badger, brittle as paper” but that was a bridge too far, even for us. This song sort of skirts between being horrendously bleak and really dumb. The vocoder Gin and Gum put on “so European” absolutely kills me.”

‘So Lo’ follows ‘(I’m) Stung’ and ‘Neon River’ as the third taste of Stung! (which you can pre-order a vinyl cop of here) and comes with a tasty visualiser created by Alejandro Crawford who worked with the band on their now-iconic ‘Paint Me Silver’ visuals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7-Ij6xqu5k

The band are about to head out across Australia for a run of shows (dates below) before the EU/UK and North America. Pre-save Stung!here .

POND AUS TOUR JUNE/JULY 2024
Friday 14 June 2024 – VIVID Sydney at Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW – with Delivery
Saturday 15 June 2024 – Altar, Hobart, TAS – with 208L Containers
Thursday 27 June 2024 – Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide, SA – with Coldwave
Friday 28 June 2024 – Northcote Theatre, Melbourne, VIC – with Parsnip
Saturday 29 June 2024 – Princess Theatre, Brisbane, QLD – with Full Flower Moon Band
Saturday 6 July 2024 – Freo Social, Fremantle, WA – with Gia Como
Tickets on sale at pond.band