Australian trio POND share a member with Tame Impala — you’re bound to dig them if you’re into that other crew’s expansive MGMT-meets-Lennon psychedelia. The piano-streaked “Sunlight Cardigan” appears on their fourth collection FROND, an album that mixes cosmic space-outs (“The Place Behind A Duck”) and duskier nighttime excursions (“Torn Asunder”) with plenty of bright clap-along struts (“Cloud City”). “Sunlight” is a soft, balladic moment. You wouldn’t be wrong to think about Elton John or Bowie while you refill your lighter.
FROND is out via Hole In The Sky. It also includes “Annie Orangetree.”
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Just an aside: What is it with all-caps band names relating to water? BOAT, YACHT, POND? I think I’m going to start a band named PUGET (as in Puget Sound) to follow the trend.
Please do.
Should we add it to the ever growing list of over-used indie-rock band naming conventions?
As in: Black Crystal LAKE Wolf Bear Body Parts?
Which reminds me, way back in the day there was a Beavis and Butthead book (a viable work of literature and most definitely NOT a cheap quick-cash gimmick) that had a page where you could name your own grunge band by selecting different nouns and adjectives from three different columns. Sure it was funny and relevant at the time, but seeing the trends in band names these days, I can’t help but think: this has all happened before…
Aww. this isn’t Subpop’s Pond? I got a little excited for a bit.
Not bad of a song. I like the instruments in the middle, but not the chorus. It’s a terrible idea to mix 1970s classic rock with 1980′s glam.