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Pond: "It was a bleak time for Australia"

Pond return with ‘The Weather’; an album partially inspired by their sunny hometown, Perth.

“Even Jaden Smith is woke to the fact that your cells completely regrow every six years,” Nick Allbrook exclaims. Referring to a video for Vanity Fair in which the star dispenses pearls of wisdom such as “In an average lifetime human skin completely replaces itself 900 times,” and “Sharks have been around longer than trees,” Pond are highly attuned to how much the world is constantly altering around them. “Everything changes far too quickly,” the frontman affirms.

The universe that the group inhabit is one that's continuously shifting. Whether writing / recording / touring together as Pond, in Tame Impala, or as their individual projects, the only constant in their world seems to be their unrelenting creativity. “We all write music habitually whenever we've got time off," Nick states. “That's a thing we've all been doing for too long to really know how to stop." Building from vibrant sparks of inspiration, everything Pond create is richly layered and ripe for exploration.

“We all write on our own, and we communicate all the time what each of us are writing," the frontman details of their multi-faceted approach. “If there are gaps in things or we need input from someone else because it's fun, then we get them to do it." With the lines between creative outlets blurred, the music that emerges is as characteristically vast as the range of influences that trigger it. "Unless it's totally obviously something that is too…” Nick pauses. “…too much music for the alone times,” he grins, “then I think I pretty much just play whatever to the other guys."

Drawing on each other’s' feedback for everything they create, the result is as eclectic as it is richly structured. “If Jay's ears perk up at a certain thing then we might take that and do it in Pond," Nick laughs. “Unless there's something desperately batty and weird, that's pretty much it." With their new album, 'The Weather', the collective have taken something of a step back from the "batty" and "weird" that's always been an undercurrent of their music.

“It is less fantastical and whimsical," Nick comments. "Maybe I'm getting old," he laughs. "Maybe we're all getting old. Old and jaded." Whether it's through the wisdom that comes with age, the increasingly more harrowing and inescapable nature of the reality we live in, or something else entirely, Pond's latest effort is grounded in a sense of the innately familiar. “It's not talking about fantasy things anymore," Nick describes. “Outside of the fantasy, there are a lot of hard things happening," he mulls. “Maybe that just made the lyrics heavier."

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