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May 25, 2017Seven albums in, Pond-life is exhibiting clear signs of accelerated own-terms evolution.
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May 18, 2017The Weather is packed with ambitious moments, and many of them go over really well.
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May 11, 2017Lyrically, it's a broad, emotionally-led investigation into 'the state of things'. By no means, however, is it bogged down by the precise or the singular or the definitive. Within its lyrical muddlings, we might be able to tease of a forecast of things to come, or it might just be fooling us with a potent swirling of punchy psychedelic rock.
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Q MagazineMay 9, 2017Filled with brilliantly wonky melodies, The Weather is a sonic hall-of-mirrors. [Jul 2017, p.112]
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May 5, 2017The Weather still has their fundamentals at its core - out-there psych-rock, Nicholas Allbrook’s urgent wails, mind-boggling lyrics that take several listens to comprehend--but it’s given them a polish and an upgrade into something new and improved.
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May 5, 2017Rarely have they sounded so good.
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May 4, 2017Accessible but still absolutely out there, this is prog, but not as we know it.
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May 3, 2017The Weather is Pond at their most daring--and most sardonic.
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May 3, 2017Even after seven albums, the fun and excitement is still there, albeit in a new and changing way.
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Apr 25, 2017They continue to show a maverick character of their own while sharing Parker’s ear for a heady, swirling prog-pop soundscape.
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MojoApr 25, 2017Wildly imaginative music. [Jun 2017, p.92]
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UncutApr 25, 2017The Weather finds them anchoring their sillier musical excesses with solid pop tunes and heartfelt existential concerns. [Jun 2017, p.37]
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May 4, 2017For all its disjointedness, the album never wanders more than a few inches away from the sublime. It’s a document of a band knocking loudly on the door of greatness.
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MagnetMay 18, 2017The variety of The Weather definitely offers some spice to lives. [No. 142, p.59]
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May 4, 2017Still trippy and shambolic, The Weather carries an epic, sometimes otherworldly luster, with a synth-poppy psychedelia that takes a half step out of deep fuzz toward ELO.
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Under The RadarApr 25, 2017Tame Impala's Kevin Parker no longer plays in the band, but is still on as producer, and it results in Pond's tightest and most unified release yet, at the expense of some of that personality. [Apr-Jun 2017, p.85]
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