Even voorstellen – Pond announce new album ‘terrestrials’

POND ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM TERRESTRIALS
OUT 19th JUNE (mangovision/konkurrent)

LISTEN/WATCH NEW SINGLE/VIDEO ‘TWO HANDS’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTf47abqECc

POND reveal news of their latest album Terrestrials, out on 19th June, on their own newly coined imprint Mangovision via Secretly Distribution, alongside a stream of headline dates in the US this July-September. Marking the announcement is their latest single and video ‘Two Hands’.

Speaking about the new single ‘Two Hands’, Nicholas Allbrook shares “This song is about when mining company Rio Tinto blew up Juukun Gorge in the Hammersley Range in Western Australia. They destroyed sacred rock shelters that were of the highest archaeological, cultural and spiritual significance. The rock shelters contained a cultural sequence spanning 46, 000 years that had been taken care of by the local Indigenous communities. I was wondering how the commentators around this country would've reacted if the shoe was on the other foot and someone had demolished the Vatican or Notre Dame or St. Paul’s because it was in the way of their corporate expansion. Anyway, its a little word of encouragement that you’ve got every right to be very fucking angry about this injustice.”


Ceremoniously distilling the forthcoming record’s intent into a playful caricature through ‘Two Hands’s music video, Allbrook continues, “The video was made by us and Sam Kristofski (with heaps of help from Tess Thompson, Kate Green and Christian Dillon). We filmed it in York and the Beverley Offroad Motorsports Association on one of the hottest days of the summer. Az was tough enough to wear full leathers the whole time. Endless thanks to him and Ry for fully embodying the soul of this video with their enduring passion for dust, rust, black cans, circlework and fucked up old motorcars.”

The group of Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Joe Ryan, Jamie Terry, and James Ireland, exist to create – the myriad of crossovers between their projects individually and the scene they first put on the map continues today – and that pursuit is set to persist forever no doubt. Yet for the first time in POND’s history, the recording process on their 11th was subject to a simple set of rules: No fuzz pedal. No ballads. No “Pink Floyd shit”.

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 backrooms that hits an eternally poignant nerve for anyone familiar with the sound, time and place. From there Terrestrials evolved and the idea of “Goths at the pub” became the record’s stylistic north star - iconic 80s Australiana being acid-washed with the eyeliner-stained post-punk of Sisters Of Mercy, Magazine and the like. “Would Goths like it?” “Could you have a beer to this?” If the answers were yes it was thrust into the mix.

Like much of the Pond catalogue, Terrestrials is a record of people and place, of exploring the identity of each, as well as where and how they intersect and interact. Extractive capitalism, power dynamics, inequality, indigenous incarceration, eccentric outcasts, fire and water, diesel and dust, unity and division, blood and bauxite, unborn tomorrows and dead yesterdays - it’s all there. Terrestrials twitches with the desperation of people and planet on the brink, but ultimately bets on the beauty of both to prevail.

Earlier POND shared the title track to support across NME, CLASH, The Line of Best Fit, DORK and more remarking on the song’s “strutting, preening glam-rock/new wave energy”. Following on from the announcement of their US dates supporting Djo – the musical project of actor, producer, and songwriter Joe Keery, known for his work in Stranger Things and Fargo – POND today announce a stream of headline shows across the US this July-September and will also appear locally at Against the Grain Festivalin Brisbane in June, with more Australian shows to be announced. Pre-sale is available now with general tickets on sale from Friday 10 April @ 10am local via pond.band.

First single
Pond - Terrestrials (Official Video)
LP TRACKLIST

Skyworks

Casuarina

Through The Heather

Two Hands

Roebuck Plains

The Fatal Shore

Tourmaline

Terrestrials

Personal Hell

Nashville (I’m Dying)

ABOUT POND
POND are one of the most versatile, inquisitive, and accomplished bands in the psychedelic rock vanguard. Made up of Nicholas Allbrook, Jay Watson, Joseph Ryan, James Ireland, and Jamie Terry, POND was formed in 2010 in Fremantle, Western Australia. However, it wasn’t until the release of their 2013 record Beard, Wives, Denim that POND went from a group of musicians and friends to an internationally touring band. Today, POND boasts an impressive catalog of recorded music, spanning ten critically-acclaimed albums. Since its beginnings, POND’s prowess in the live arena has also been well documented. Sharing the stage with artists such as Flaming Lips, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys and more, they have also been on major festival lineups worldwide like Glastonbury, Coachella, Splendour in the Grass, and The Great Escape.

Even voorstellen - jozef van wissem - "this is my blood" (incunabulum records/konkurrent)

1.  What The Eternal Beginning Is 6.01

2. Praise Shall Sound From Shore To Shore,

     Until The Sun Shall Rise And Set No More 9.02

3. Concerning Our Saviours Silence 7.02
4. How You Must Enter Into Suffering 7.07
5. Remission 4.27
6. All You Do All You Bare 2.26

7.. What The Eternal End Is 4.13

Uit op 01 mei 2026

Jozef Van Wissem - Renaissance And Baroque Lutes, Electronics, Beats, Voice, Words

Bookending “This Is My Blood “ are two cinematic hypnotist slide lute pieces that evoke contemporary deserted landscapes. They were improvised and made for  “ Maquina”,  a film shot in the Colorado desert during a psychedelic trip by film maker Joaquim Pujol. The works on here, like the ecstatic second  piece invite a return to long form listening. They explore contemporary darkness and contemplate personal loss. There is solely one vocal piece, “ Remission”.

A worldwide concert tour of this material is slated for 2026/2027.
Since studying the lute in New York with Patrick O'Brien in the 1990s, Van Wissem has gone on to create works equally as rooted in classical Renaissance and Baroque forms of lute music, as contemporary sounds spanning drones, electronics and field recordings. Throw in some of his formative influences from the no wave and industrial scenes, alongside a dedicated approach to minimalism and this has resulted in Van Wissem producing distinct and singular work whose sound is often a marriage of opposites; meditative and intense, forward thinking but with a sense of the arcane. The Quietus has called him "probably the most famous lutenist in the world”.

Jozef Van Wissem is an avant-garde composer and lutenist who plays a unique all-black baroque lute. His timeless music is often described as hypnotic, minimal, and hauntingly atmospheric, merging beauty with a dark, meditative edge. His lyrics have a mythical Christian appeal, incorporating themes of love, faith, and the afterlife, often with a repetitive, mantra-like quality. Bridging classical traditions with modern sounds like drones, electronics, field recordings and voice.

He collaborates with filmmaker and musician Jim Jarmusch, including the award-winning soundtrack for Only Lovers Left Alive, for which Van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award in 2013. He also scored the Sims Medieval Video game ( 2011), Uncle Howard ( 2016) Land (2018), Irma Vep (2022), Queens (2023) and Un Prince (2024). He did a world tour in duo with Jarmusch in 2025 and their 5th record “ The Day The Angels Cried” was released.

Van Wissem tours extensively, performing in diverse venues from rock festivals to churches, and has worked with artists like Tilda Swinton and Zola Jesus. In 2019 he was commissioned by Cinematheque Francaise to score the silent horror film Nosferatu (1922). He released the soundtrack in 2022 on his own Incunabulum label. The New York Times wrote: Beginning with a solo played on the lute, his performance will incorporate electric guitar and distorted recordings of extinct birds, graduating from subtlety to gothic horror. “My soundtrack goes from silence to noise over the course of 90 minutes,” he said, culminating in “dense, slow death metal.” In 2024 Van Wissem did a sold out nationwide American tour with the film. A worldwide tour is slated for 2026/2027   

Even voorstellen - Steve Gunn Announces new “Shape of a Wave” EP

out this Friday April 10^th

Shares a Sonic Boom remix of “Nearly There” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4EMbB95ZeY

LIVE Apr 25 - Eeklo, B - N9

EP MUSIC: https://riot.secretlydistribution.com/play/XNT84tXWcyKGzTEGLutPt7Ut

Steve Gunn released his 7th studio album Daylight Daylight back in November. Aquarium Drunkard dubbed it “an absolute masterwork” while MOJO called it “remarkable,” going to to say: “[it] remains a spare, transient, restrained thing. Yet it’s that restraint that ultimately defines it’s brilliance”

Now Gunn announces a 4-song companion EP out this Friday April 10th. The set features two new songs and two Daylight Daylight tracks remixed by Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember (of Spacemen 3).

On having Kember remix his work, Gunn says:
Sonic Boom’s music has been in my ear for a long time, and it has shaped the way I hear and think about songs. Working with him feels like a deep moment, because his music has meant so much to me over the years. I’m so grateful that he has put his touch on these songs

The two new songs were again recorded with Daylight Daylight producer/collaborator James Elkington, with recording taking place at both Gunn’s home studio and Elkington’s Nada Studios. The full EP will be available both digitally and as a limited edition 12”.

Gunn will tour Europe for the month of April and May with more summer dates to be

Tracklist:
Shape of a Wave

Nearly There (Sonic Boom remix)

Mahina

Another Fade (Sonic Boom remix)

Parcels deelt livesessie van ‘ifyoucall’. Live op Pukkelpop en Lowlands 2026

Nu kondigt het Australische, in Berlijn gevestigde vijftal Parcels nieuwe tourdata aan voor de Verenigde Staten en Mexico in het najaar. De tour vormt een verlengstuk van hun Noord‑Amerikaanse reeks van vorig jaar, waarmee de band hun veelgeprezen album LOVED live voorstelde. Naast de aangekondigde tour in de VS en Mexico is Parcels deze zomer ook live te zien in de Benelux, met optredens op Lowlands en Pukkelpop.

Tegelijk met de aankondiging deelt Parcels ook een gloednieuwe live sessie van het albumnummer “Ifyoucall”.
Parcels - Ifyoucall (Live)
Parcels staan bekend om hun meeslepende en energieke liveshows. Muziekplatform Consequence omschreef hun concerten als “een van de meest engagerende en extatische live‑ervaringen van het moment”. De nieuwe tour volgt op een jaar met opvallende festivaloptredens, waaronder een veelbesproken show op Glastonbury. Billboard noemde het daar “een van de grootste en grooviest publieksmomenten van het hele weekend”, terwijl The Independent het optreden omschreef als “indrukwekkend” en “magnifiek”. Ook hun recente Europese tour was een succes, met onder meer shows in de  Ziggodome en in Vorst Nationaal, samen met hun eerste arena‑show in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, die door The Times werd beloond met vier sterren.

Het album LOVED klinkt uitbundig en euforisch, maar is tegelijk introspectief. Het is bovenal een plaat over verbondenheid: tussen de bandleden onderling, met het publiek en binnen de grooves van de muziek. Elk bandlid krijgt ruimte voor zijn eigen perspectief, terwijl de collectieve kracht, kameraadschap en romantiek van Parcels als vijfkoppige band centraal staan. Die unieke en onherhaalbare dynamiek vormt de kern van hun creatieve motor. Gitarist en zanger Jules Crommelin verwoordt het als volgt: “We hebben als band een doel richting ons publiek: we willen mensen vreugde brengen. Ik zie het als iets spiritueels, en dat is ongelooflijk krachtig.”

Sinds de release heeft LOVED wereldwijd al meer dan 150 miljoen streams verzameld. Het album bereikte #5 in Spotify’s Top Debut Global Albums en #9 in de Top Debut USA Albums, waarmee Parcels hun internationale impact onderstrepen en zich definitief vestigen als een van de meest toegankelijke en geliefde indie‑popacts van hun generatie.

ALBUM 2025 Loved
LIVE 2025 Parcels - Van intimiteit tot euforie