Pond Drift Into 'Through The Heather' Ahead of 'Terrestrials'

Pond have shared Through The Heather, another preview of their upcoming album Terrestrials. The record is due June 19 through the band’s own Mangovision imprint, and NME notes that the new track follows the previously released Terrestrials and Two Hands.

Through The Heather is not Pond at their most fried or cartoonishly over-caffeinated. NME describes the song as built around gently twinkling guitars and a dreamily melodic synth line, which fits the track’s stranger charm: it feels like a psych-rock band trying to write something tender without sanding off the oddball fingerprints.

The song started in a very unglamorous place. According to NME, Through The Heather was conceived during Pond’s European tour last year while drummer James ‘Gin’ Ireland was experimenting on Ableton. Nicholas Allbrook turns that origin into the better version of rock-star mythmaking: “Sometimes rock and roll is a glamorous game baby, but mainly it isn’t. Funny that such a beautiful, melancholic, searching song was born surrounded by chip packets and track pants in a van full of filthy pigs.”

Allbrook also points to the band’s studio mischief, describing “spring reverb thunderclaps” made by giving the spring “a cheeky little pinch to make it go BOOM,” while MasterChef played silently in the corner. That is useful Pond context. Their records often work because the songs sound lush and loose at the same time, like someone left the tape running while the serious idea and the dumb joke became the same thing.

Terrestrials runs 10 tracks, with Through The Heather placed third. Pond’s last album was 2024’s Stung!, following 2021’s 9, and the new material so far suggests the band is still less interested in settling into a clean psych-pop lane than in finding new ways to make the lane wobble.

The band also has U.S. dates running from July through September, including several shows supporting Djo. Watch the Through The Heather video and see the dates below.