Australian outfit Pond have returned with a new single titled ‘Terrestrials’.
The track marks their first new material since the release of Stung, and arrives as the Perth group prepare for an upcoming run of North American shows alongside Djo.
‘Terrestrials’ finds the band leaning back into the psychedelic textures that first defined their sound, while maintaining a strong melodic core. The result is a track that feels both expansive and immediate, pairing swirling instrumentation with a more direct songwriting approach.
The creative process behind the song reflects Pond’s collaborative ethos. The initial idea was brought in by Gum, before being gradually reshaped by the full band. Each member contributed to deconstructing and rebuilding the track, resulting in a piece that carries multiple perspectives within its structure.
Frontman Nicholas Allbrook has described the song as an attempt to grapple with the contradictions of human behaviour.
“Gum wrote the music for this one and we recorded it in Mullumbimby with Julian Abbott at Nowave studio,” he explains. “This song is about the weirdest of all the terrestrials, people.”
Allbrook points to the tension between humanity’s capacity for connection and its tendency towards destruction.
“We can love and connect and nurture and inflict unbearable cruelty. It’s kind of a great mystery. It’s almost more supernatural than extraterrestrials.”
That duality runs through the song, giving it a reflective undercurrent beneath its psychedelic surface. The lyrics also draw on personal conversations, including exchanges with Allbrook’s cousin Iz, which helped shape the track’s thematic direction.
The single is accompanied by a video produced by Jesse Taylor Smith, extending the track’s visual and conceptual world.
With ‘Terrestrials’, Pond signal a continuation of their restless creative evolution, returning to familiar sonic territory while pushing it in new directions.
‘Terrestrials’ is out now.
