12 tracks
"Everyday Robots" "Hostiles" "Lonely Press Play" "Mr Tembo" "Parakeet" "The Selfish Giant" "You and Me" "Hollow Ponds" "Seven High" "Photographs (You are Taking Now)" "The History of a Cheating Heart" "Heavy Seas of Love" Bonus tracks "Father's Daughter's Son" "Empty Club"

12 tracks
"Everyday Robots" "Hostiles" "Lonely Press Play" "Mr Tembo" "Parakeet" "The Selfish Giant" "You and Me" "Hollow Ponds" "Seven High" "Photographs (You are Taking Now)" "The History of a Cheating Heart" "Heavy Seas of Love" Bonus tracks "Father's Daughter's Son" "Empty Club"

"Hollow Ponds" is the third single by Damon Albarn, from his solo debut album, Everyday Robots. It was released as a single in digital formats on 19 April 2014, via Warner Bros. Records in the US. The song contains a sample of a Central line train leaving Leytonstone Station on the London Underground. Hollow Ponds is the name of a park in Leytonstone.

"Hollow Ponds" references key dates in Albarn's life, including the 1976 summer drought. "Read into that what you will," he said, when quizzed about its lyrical content. "And let's not talk about Australia." He also references Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish name origin, which is from a bit of graffiti Albarn saw spray-painted on a wall in London in 1993. There are a number of years referenced in the song, including 1976, 1979, 1991 & 1993.

The song "Hollow Ponds" was played in its full form on XFM on Thursday 20 March 2014. Albarn gave an interview with Danielle Perry where he talked about the track, and said: "1976 is a long time ago really, there's that realisation that a lot of things have been quite interesting in the way I turned out. They seemed to be worthy of some kind of meditation.That's what I'm trying to do in Hollow Ponds: go back and then realise that it's now. In a way, how do we know that we exist other than that beam of light that's our history?" Albarn also revealed that the song samples a train leaving Leytonstone on the Central line on the London Underground and also the playground of Albarn's old school.

The track was confirmed to be an official single via Albarn's official website and becomes a free download on 19 April with pre-ordering the album. The live performance of the track live from Fox Studios, Los Angeles is included as a bonus track from the Special Edition of the album along with "Everyday Robots", "Hostiles" & "Lonely Press Play".

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