By JOHN DALY
Pond has dropped the track and accompanying video for their latest work, “America’s Cup,” a jovial sendup of the immense interest in the world’s oldest sailing race.
The track is off the upcoming album 9, available October 1 via Spinning Top Records-Secretly Distribution.
“We sort of gave ourselves permission to make something stuffed this time,” said frontman Nick Allbrook of the new album. “We’d settled into a pretty tight routine with the last few albums and wanted to shake a boat with this so we started off with filling a few tape reels with some absolutely heinous improvised sonic babble which, after much sifting, became the first few songs of the album.”
The album 9 is produced by Pond and mixed by Jay Watson and James Ireland. Sam Kristofski directs the video and producer is Blaine Stevenson. Production Company is Fish & Clips.
“I’m from NZ and the big Sail race was here, the whole country was glued to their TV’s and I don’t even wanna know how much they spent on that thing” said Kristofski. “So I thought it would be funny if the captain of the racing team won the cup and auctioned it off to a bunch of people who love that kinda thing. Then he celebrates by dancing. Pretty twisted idea but I think it works.”
Pond previously released “Pink Lunettes” from the new album.