This blog is all about those cold nights we sit in front of the fireplace and give in to all the useless but joyful stuff. As Oscar Wilde stated in the preface of his book The Picture of Dorian Gray: “We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”
Join in if you feel like being useless for a while.
Pond’s Hobo Rocket comes out on August 2nd
in Australia, August 5th in Europe and August 6th in USA.
And to celebrate this good news you can download Giant
Tortoise for free at http://pondband.com/.
Tracklist
01. Whatever Happened To The Million Head Collide 02. Xanman 03. O Dharma 04. Aloneaflameaflower 05. Giant Tortoise 06. Hobo Rocket 07. Midnight Mass (At The Market Street Payphone)
According
to tondeaf.com.au, 2013 might bring a new Pond
album as well as solo albums from the band’s members. Beard, Wives & Denim’s
follow up title is Hobo Rocket, afull on, manic acid rock album according to Jay Watson.
Jay Watson
also added that he has just finished his album while Joe Ryan is recording
material for his, as well as Nick and Cam are doing for their project Allbrook/Avery.
If you like Tame Impala and this new breed of psychedelic bands then you
should listen to Pond. They are an Australian band that includes 3 members of the
aforementioned band, Kevin Parker, Jay Watson and Nick Albrook, plus Joseph
Ryan and Jamie Terry. Although this band plays the same music genre as Tame
Impala expect a more experimental approach with more improvisation and less
catchy vocal melody lines.
Watch and listen to their flawless performance of Eye Pattern Blindness live on KEXP.
If you like this then try the entire KEXP performance.