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Released | 1 October 2021 | |||
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Length | 39:09 | |||
Label | Spinning Top | |||
Producer | Pond | |||
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Singles from 9 | ||||
Singles from 9 (Deluxe) | ||||
9 is the ninth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band Pond. It was released on 1 October 2021 by Spinning Top Records. [7] The album was produced by the band themselves,the first since 2012's Beard,Wives,Denim to not be co-produced by former member Kevin Parker,with bandmates Jay Watson and James Ireland on mixing duties. [4]
9 became the band's first ARIA top ten album,debuting at number 6 on the chart. [8]
A deluxe version of the album was released on 20 May 2022. [6]
The album was announced on 20 May 2021,alongside second single "America's Cup". [2] Upon announcement,Nick Allbrook said "We'd settled into a pretty tight routine with the last few albums and wanted to shake a boat with this so we started off with filling a few tape reels with some absolutely heinous improvised sonic babble which,after much sifting,became the first few songs of the album. We also wanted to up the tempo. The last few albums have a neat little mantra or repetitive theme. If I was forced to find something like that in 9,I guess it would be 'biography' or 'observation' - a lot of the lyrics seem to focus on single people's lives,or the lives of small moments or small things when you zoom real close up and they reveal something deeper." [9] [10]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 72/100 [11] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
NME | [12] |
Rolling Stone Australia | [13] |
At Metacritic,which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications,9 received an average score of 72 based on six reviews,indicating "generally favourable reviews".
Rhys Buchanan from NME said "The band that keeps on giving,having pushed their self-proclaimed "polished psych-pop" to its outer reaches,reinvent themselves yet again." [12] James Di Fabrizio from Rolling Stone Australia said "At 9's best,it's an exhilarating ride through multiple ideas all being born at once. While it will never be Pond's most focused record,it's arguably more interesting to hear the band push forward into new territory than rehash well-trodden ideas." [13]
All tracks are written by Nicholas Allbrook, Jay Watson, Joseph Ryan, James Ireland, and Jamie Terry
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Song for Agnes" | 4:14 |
2. | "Human Touch" | 3:20 |
3. | "America's Cup" | 3:50 |
4. | "Take Me Avalon I'm Young" | 3:30 |
5. | "Pink Lunettes" | 5:46 |
6. | "Czech Locomotive" | 4:50 |
7. | "Rambo" | 5:03 |
8. | "Gold Cup / Plastic Sole" | 4:26 |
9. | "Toast" | 4:10 |
Total length: | 39:09 |
No. | Title | Length |
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10. | "Lights of Leeming" | 3:14 |
11. | "My Funny Serpentine" | 3:34 |
12. | "The TAB Took My Baby Away" | 3:03 |
13. | "Hang a Cross On Me (ft. Cowboy John)" | 4:45 |
Total length: | 53:05 |
Pond
Additional personnel
Chart (2021) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [14] | 6 |
Scottish Albums (OCC) [15] | 93 |
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [16] | 18 |
Region | Date | Format | Edition | Label | Catalogue | Ref. |
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Various | 1 October 2021 | Standard | Spinning Top | STR025CD | ||
Australia | 20 May 2022 | Deluxe | STR025DLXLP | [6] |
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