Psychedelic Mango

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Psychedelic Mango
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Studio album by
Released9 January 2009
Genre Psychedelic rock, psychedelic pop, neo-psychedelia, space rock, garage rock
Length40:32
48:21 (iTunes edition)
Label Badminton Bandit
Pond chronology
Psychedelic Mango
(2009)
Corridors of Blissterday
(2009)

Psychedelic Mango is the debut studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band Pond. [1] [2] [3] The album was released on 9 January 2009 (only 500 copies were pressed) through Badminton Bandit and re-released digitally in 2010. According to the liner notes, it was recorded by Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, and Shiny Joe Ryan in Allbrook's parents' house, on their 8-track tape machine.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pond

Psychedelic Mango
No.TitleLength
1."That Is How We Came"6:01
2."Psychedelic Mango Vision"4:53
3."Gringolet's Drunken Baggage"7:10
4."Sweeping My Mind Tunnel"1:34
5."Don't Look at the Sun or You'll Go Blind"2:54
6."Mick Manmoose"5:34
7."Paisley Adams"3:52
8."Bees"9:12
Total length:40:32
iTunes bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
9."Don't Look at the Sun or You'll Go Blind (Live at John Curtin Band Room, Melbourne, 2010)"3:31
10."Mick Manmoose (Live at Mojos, Fremantle, 2009)"4:18
Total length:44:01

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