Pond Confirms New Album ‘Terrestrials’ & 2026 North American Tour Dates

Pond confirmed a new album, Terrestrials, arriving on June 19 through their new imprint Mangovision. The band also shared the second preview of the record, “Two Hands,” and 2026 North American headline tour dates.

The Australian outfit —- Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Joe Ryan, Jamie Terry and James Ireland — heralded Terrestrials with the title track in March. As “Terrestrials” hinted at, the new album saw Pond setting out to switch up their sonic aesthetic.

For the first time, Pond laid out some ground rules when creating their 11th studio album: “No fuzz pedal. No ballads. No ‘Pink Floyd shit.'” Press materials further detailed Terrestrials:

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.

Pond frontman Nick Allbrook also spoke about the latest Terrestrials single, “Two Hands.”

This song is about when mining company Rio Tinto blew up Juukun Gorge in the Hammersley Range in Western Australia,” he said. “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.”

Check out the Kristofski and Pond-created music video for “Two Hands” below.

Along with the release of “Terrestrials,” Pond also announced a run of shows supporting Djo. The Australian band now shares North American headline tour dates, kicking off July 10 in Atlanta ahead of the stint with Djo.

The headline trek also includes stops in Toronto, Richmond (Virginia), Nashville, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland (Oregon), Denver, Austin (Texas) and Dallas. Pond wraps things up in Los Angeles on September 22.

Tickets for the headline dates go on sale Friday, April 10 at 10 a.m. local time.

Terrestrials Tracklist:

1. Skyworks
2. Casuarina
3. Through The Heather
4. Two Hands
5. Roebuck Plains
6. The Fatal Shore
7. Tourmaline
8. Terrestrials
9. Personal Hell
10. Nashville (I’m Dying)