Pond – Stung (CD)

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Pond have spent over a decade orbiting the same fertile Perth scene that produced Tame Impala, swapping members and ideas with Kevin Parker's crew while consistently carving their own weirder, wilder path. Stung finds Nick Allbrook and company at their most expansively themselves, a band confident enough to sprawl without losing the thread. Pond are one of the most versatile, inquisitive, and accomplishedbands of the psychedelic rock vanguard.The last four Pond albums have been showcases of tidiness andbrevity, 10 ideas always tucked into 40 minutes or so. But on Stung!,they gleefully, madly, and wilfully lean into double-LP largesse, tappingthe spirit of Tusk and Sign 'O' the Times by funnelling 14 songs intothe most unfettered and splendid hour of their recording career.Stung! Delivers some of Pond's most glorious rock songs ever andalso some of their least rock moments, all psychedelic drapery or funkvim. In that epic, as in Stung! #at large, Allbrook speaks to ourcollective modern paradox of being disappointed in or evendisconsolate over a world that we know more about than any priorgeneration but also being in awe of it and (sometimes) each other, too.There are so many reasons to cry and so many reasons to marvel.Can't they all, Pond suggests with Stung!, be reasons to sing? Tracklist 1. Constant Picnic (3:30) 2. (I’m) Stung (3:55) 3. Neon River (4:13) 4. So Lo (3:49) 5. Black Lung (4:28) 6. Sunrise For The Lonely (3:30) 7. Elf Bar Blues (2:06) 8. Edge Of The World Pt. 3 (8:07) 9. Stars In Silken Sheets (0:36) 10. Boys Don’t Crash (3:47) 11. O' UV Ray (4:16) 12. Last Elvis (3:34) 13. Elephant Gun (3:16) 14. Fell From Grace With The Sea (5:18) UPC: 612789326358Label: Spinning Top RecordsRelease Date: 6.21.24Format: CD Show more