Pond - TerrestrialsBeloved Australian five piece POND offer a skerrick of hope in a hostile world with their new record their 11th Terrestrials. A cyclone of urgent, scorched earth rocknroll, Terrestrials tips the hat to the sounds of then while squarely facing up to the here and now. Conceived from a place of reverence for a particularly potent epoch in Oz rock, Terrestrials mines the sound of open sky melancholia, heat haze sizzling on the plains and jangly pub

the feral follow-up Smokin the Dummy is less conceptually focused but more sonically and stylistically unified than its predecessor it’s also rougher and rowdier

The bands did their job back in the day by writing

Final Sunset

he’s released many acclaimed solo albums

The move was sudden and unforeseen

Railing against Margaret Thatcher's tory government

At a time when post-ambient electronica and bedevilled folk music are co-habiting

The Shins and Dangermouse

A former hippy with a history of substance abuse

Remastered and reissued on Fat Possum

The only thing you can really control is when you let go

and survival