Photo: Matt Sav
Pond have announced a tiny show at London’s Moth Club on February 14 and released a bizarre video for new single ‘Sweep Me Off My Feet’ which seems to splice together stock footage of religious epics, showering models, holiday adverts and motivational business films.
The Australian psych-rock band, formed as an offshoot from Tame Impala by ex-bassist Nick Allbrook, are renowned for their surreal psychedelic videos full of singing puppets and suicidal CGI figures. But Matt Sav’s promo clip for the second single from their forthcoming seventh album ‘The Weather’ is amongst their most baffling yet.
Shots of families running joyfully along beaches are juxtaposed with Jesus walking on water and footage of successful business teams dancing and cheering each other. Allbrook appears making the rookie mistake of showering in mascara, while professional models show him how it should be done. Watch the video below.
The Weather, released on 5 May and once again produced by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker at his Perth studio, is described as “an ambitious, technicolour odyssey” and “Pond’s coming of age”.
“It’s a concept album,” Allbrook explains, “not completely about Perth, but focusing on all the weird contradictory things that make up a lot of colonial cities around the world. Laying out all the dark things underneath the shimmering exterior of cranes, development, money and white privilege. It’s not our place, but it is our place. British, but Australian, but not REAL Australian. On the edge of the world with a hell of a lot of fucked things defining our little city, still we try and live a wholesome respectful life, while being inherently disrespectful. At the end of all this confusion in our weird little white antipodean world, there’s the beach, purity and nature that brings us all together.”
The Weather’s tracklisting is as follows:
30,000 Megatons
Sweep Me Off My Feet
Paint Me Silver
Colder Than Ice
Edge Of The World Pt. 1
A/B
Zen Automaton
All I Want For Xmas (Is A Tascam 388)
Edge of the World Pt. 2
The Weather
Following their Moth Club show, Pond play the below. Check here for tickets
27 May - London Calling, Amsterdam, Netherlands
3 June - Primavera, Barcelona
9 June - Primavera, Porto
16 & 23 April - Coachella, US
