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Pond have shared another single from their upcoming ninth studio album (helpfully titled 9), which arrives 1 October on Spinning Top Records/Secretly Distribution. ‘Toast’ is accompanied by a homemade karaoke-style music video from the band.

Although the track has a dreamy psych-pop sound, the lyrics are a lot heavier than you might think on the first listen. Dealing with frontman Nick Allbrook’s observations of the wealth divide following the bushfires last year, looking particularly at the mindset of the wealthiest people in the world. Allbrook described the song here:

“The intro chords came from a Joe Ryan demo mysteriously titled Toast. I’ve never asked Joe why he landed on that name, and I probably never will, but it pointed toward the image of fat-headed gobblers touching flutes of bubbles, watching the End of Days gallop over the horizon. I often wonder about those people - the money hoarders, climate change deniers, earth-pilferers and adventure capitalists - are they nihilists or anarchists or do they really believe they are to be saved by some Rock Opera Jesus? We may never know, but here is Toast, which is hopefully as smooth as the smooth, smooth sailing of our glorious leaders fat old white lives,”

Check out the dreamy music video here:

9 will arrive 1 October.

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