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SHINE ON

For the first time in over two years, fans along the Australian east coast will chance to watch Pond, live in the flesh, this April. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has kept the WA psych-rockers bound to local stages (where they’ve played almost a dozen shows) since the plague broke out, but now they’re primed to tear shit up in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne over three wild nights in April.

It’s there we’ll see Pond debut a stack from their ninth studio album, bluntly titled . The release – which spans a tight nine tracks, because of course it does – saw the quintet return to their roots, jamming freely and emphasising fun over being fastidious. Shortly after the tour wraps up, they’ll release a

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