Pond - Stung! (Vinyl) Avantdale Bowling Club through a collection of essays

through a collection of essays that explore what it was like to be at the center of the pop universe during a golden era

this new line-up was still taking shape and the album features two different bassists

dreamy pastoral folk (Days Run Together)

It's a slow album

a panorama of the Pacific Coast provides the place and head space for exploratory Buchla synthesizer passages that meditate on a life-giving form vast and volatile with change

Pond - Stung! (Vinyl) Avantdale Bowling Club through a collection of essaysPond are one of the most versatile, inquisitive, and accomplished bands of the psychedelic rock vanguard. The last four Pond albums have been showcases of tidiness and brevity, 10 ideas always tucked into 40 minutes or so. But on Stung!,they gleefully, madly, and wilfully lean into double LP largesse, tapping the spirit of Tusk and Sign O the Times by funnelling 14 songs into the most unfettered and splendid hour of their recording career. Stung!