There’s a certain cosmic irony baked into POND. For a band so often orbiting the outer edges of psych, their latest single turns the lens inward, landing somewhere far stranger than space.
‘Terrestrials’ arrives as a warped meditation on humanity itself, a song that treats people as the ultimate unknowable species. Written by Jay Watson (Gum) and recorded in Mullumbimby with Julian Abbott, it carries that familiar POND elasticity, drifting between beauty and unease while frontman Nicholas Allbrook frames the track as something close to existential head-scratching. Love and cruelty sit side by side here, not in opposition but in uneasy coexistence, as if the song itself can’t quite reconcile how both can live in the same body.
The accompanying visual, produced by Jesse Taylor Smith, leans into that ambiguity, giving the track a shape that feels slippery rather than fixed. It’s less about answers than atmosphere, a continuation of the band’s long-standing refusal to pin anything down too neatly.
And yet, for all its philosophical drift, ‘Terrestrials’ feels grounded in the band’s current momentum. It’s their first new material since 2024’s Stung!, a record that quietly reaffirmed their place in the upper tier of modern psychedelic rock. Across a decade-spanning catalogue, POND have built something rare: a band that evolves without shedding its identity, constantly mutating but never losing its core pulse.
That pulse is about to hit the road again. This summer, they’ll join Joe Keery’s musical project Djo for a run of shows that promises to blur the line between indie, psych and something more off-kilter.
Stream ‘Terrestrials’ HERE.
US TOUR DATES
Tue 14 Jul – Stage AE – Pittsburgh PA / Seneca Land*
Fri 17 Jul – Forest Hills Stadium – Forest Hills NY / Lenape Land*
Tue 21 Jul – Thompson’s Point – Portland ME / Abenaki Land*
Thu 23 Jul – Artpark Amphitheatre – Lewiston, NY / Tuscarora Land*
Fri 31 Jul – Allianz Amphitheatre at the Riverfront – Richmond, VA / Algonquin Land*
*supporting Djo
Go HERE for ticketing information.
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