Pond Details New Album ‘Stung!’ & Shares Resilient ‘(I’m) Stung’ Single

Australian psych-rockers Pond confirmed a new album, Stung!, due out on Spinning Top Records on June 21. The band further previewed the record with the title track, “(I’m) Stung.”

Pond previously shared Stung! track “Neon River” and announced 2024 tour dates including a U.S. trek around Stung! Pond has also been busy in their personal lives, “with relationships, children, professions, hobbies, side-projects, or some mix of them all,” as per a press release.

As such, the band began work on Stung! rather piecemeal before ramping things up in a more cohesive fashion at drummer Jay “GUM” Watson’s home studio. Pond brought their 10th studio album to the finish line at a friend’s newly minted state-of-the-art studio in the scenic Australian surfing hub of Dunsborough south of the band’s hometown of Perth.

The album’s title, Stung!, came from an inside joke within the band about having a crush on someone or something. Frontman Nicholas Allbrook gave a real life example of the concept, which lead him to write new single, “(I’m) Stung.”

“I wrote most of this while mowing someone’s lawn. I went home and put my fingers on the piano and pretty much played the base of it first go. This is a very rare and special treat and buoyed me for weeks. It’s funny because I had a mad crush on someone, and they dropped me like a sack of shit and this song just flew down and clocked me right in the forehead and I felt totally better. Then Gin and Gum added all their magic – cool sounds, passing chords.

“It’s about being totally pathetically stung by someone and just having to be cool with it being unrequited. Being resilient, accepting that you are a bit of a goose, but life goes on.”

Watch the Pond-directed music video for “(I’m) Stung” below:

Following their U.S. run in May, Pond will return home for an Australian tour in June and July ahead of a European trek in the fall. Check out their full itinerary with ticket info below.

Stung! Tracklist:

1. Constant Picnic
2. (I’m) Stung
3. Neon River
4. So Lo
5. Black Lung
6. Sunrise For The Lonely
7. Elf Bar Blues
8. Edge of the World Pt. 3
9. Stars In Silken Sheets
10. Boys Don’t Crash
11. O, UV Ray
12. Last Elvis
13. Elephant Gun
14. Fell From Grace With The Sea