Pond (Australian band)

Pond
Pond playing at the 2014 Southbound music festival
Background information
Origin	Perth, Western Australia
Genres	Psychedelic rock, neo-psychedelia, psychedelic pop, glam rock, funk, garage rock, space rock
Years active	2008–present
Labels	Marathon Artists EMI Music Fiction Records
Associated acts	Tame Impala GUM Mink Mussel Creek Allbrook/Avery Space Lime Peacock Shiny Joe Ryan The Silents
Website	pondband.net
Members	Nick Allbrook Jay Watson Shiny Joe Ryan Jamie Terry
Past members	Nick Odell Jeremy Cope Cam Avery Richard Ingham Matthew Saville Kevin Parker Julien Barbagallo Ben McDonald

Pond is a psychedelic rock band from Perth, Western Australia, formed in 2008. Featuring a revolving line-up, the band currently consists of Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Joe Ryan and Jamie Terry.

Pond often shares its members with fellow Australian psychedelic rock band Tame Impala. Jay Watson is a full member of both acts, while Pond band leader Nick Allbrook contributed to both bands from 2009 until 2013. Current Tame Impala members Kevin Parker, Cam Avery and Julien Barbagallo are all former members of Pond, with Parker continuing to work with the band as its record producer.

Pond were formed in Perth, Western Australia, in 2008 with members Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson and Joe Ryan. The original idea of Pond was to be able to get anyone they wanted to play whatever they wanted in a collaborative musical project.

Their first album was released soon after in January 2009, titled Psychedelic Mango which contained many psychedelic rock and pop elements. Their second album, Corridors of Blissterday, was completed live with an eight piece band in five days, and released in June 2009. This led to the creation of their 2010 album, Frond, released in May 2010, featuring a heavier pop influence than previously heard from them.

After the breakthrough success of Innerspeaker, the debut album by Tame Impala, a band which shares three members with Pond, the album Beard, Wives, Denim was recorded in 2010 and later released to critical acclaim in March 2012.