Terrestrials (Pond album)
2026 studio album by Pond
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Terrestrials is the eleventh studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band Pond. It was released on 19 June 2026 on the band's own Mangovision label, via Secretly Distribution. The album was preceded by the singles "Terrestrials", "Two Hands", and "Through the Heather".[1]
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| Released | 19 June 2026 | |||
| Studio | Nowave Studio (Mullumbimby) | |||
| Length | 37:43 | |||
| Label | Mangovision | |||
| Producer | Pond | |||
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Writing and production
When recording of the album began, the band decided to try something different and were inspired by 1980s post-punk, new wave, and gothic rock in order to achieve a "goths at the pub" sound, with heavy influence taken from bands such as the Church, Magazine, Midnight Oil, and the Sisters of Mercy.[2]
According to frontman Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson wrote the music for lead single "Terrestrials", and the song was recorded in Mullumbimby with Julian Abbott at Nowave studio. "The song is about the weirdest of all the terrestrials, people. Hellbent on flying away from or killing our home soil, with a big appetite for destruction, guns, roses."[3]
Allbrook has said that second single "Two Hands" is about when mining company Rio Tinto blew up Juukun Gorge in the Hammersley Range in Western Australia. The mining company destroyed sacred rock shelters that contained a cultural sequence spanning 46,000 years that had been taken care of by the local Indigenous communities.[1]
The final pre-release single "Through the Heather" was conceived during the band's European tour in 2024, when drummer James Ireland was experimenting on Ableton. Allbrook stated that "sometimes rock and roll is a glamorous game baby, but mainly it isn't. Funny that such a beautiful, melancholic, searching song was born surrounded by chip packets and track pants in a van full of filthy pigs."[4]
Promotion and release
The album was formally announced on 8 April 2026, alongside the release of the album's second single, "Two Hands". Terrestrials will be released worldwide on 19 June 2026.[5]
On 17 March 2026, the single "Terrestrials" was released, making it the lead single of the album.[3] The release of the single was accompanied by a music video directed and produced by Jesse Taylor Smith.[3]
On 8 April 2026, the second single "Two Hands" was released.[1] In the song's music video shows two men living in an apocalyptic junkyard evading the police. Tom Breihan of Stereogum describes the music video having "cartoonish Mad Max vibes" and "charming".[1] The music video was directed by Sam Kristofski and Pond.[6]
The final single prior to the album's release, "Through the Heather", was released on 12 May 2026.[4] A new music video directed by Albert Pritchard accompanied the release of the single.[7]
On 17 June 2026, the band revealed on social media that a fourth single, "Skyworks", which is the album's opening track, would be released on 19 June, the day of the album's release. A brief snippet of a music video produced for the single accompanied the announcement.
Track listing
The album contains 10 tracks.[1]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Skyworks" | 4:20 |
| 2. | "Casuarina" | 3:41 |
| 3. | "Through the Heather" | 3:21 |
| 4. | "Two Hands" | 4:24 |
| 5. | "Roebuck Plains" | 3:32 |
| 6. | "The Fatal Shore" | 4:01 |
| 7. | "Tourmaline" | 2:17 |
| 8. | "Terrestrials" | 3:59 |
| 9. | "Personal Hell" | 4:12 |
| 10. | "Nashville (I'm Dying)" | 3:56 |
| Total length: | 37:43 | |