The Weather (Pond album)

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The Weather
The Weather Pond.jpg
Studio album by
Released5 May 2017
Studio Kevin Parker's home studio
(Fremantle, Western Australia)
Genre
Length39:44
Label Marathon Artists
Producer
Pond chronology
Man It Feels Like Space Again
(2015)
The Weather
(2017)
Tasmania
(2019)
Singles from The Weather
  1. "Sweep Me Off My Feet"
    Released: 7 October 2016
  2. "30000 Megatons"
    Released: 10 November 2016
  3. "The Weather"
    Released: 17 March 2017
  4. "Paint Me Silver"
    Released: 20 April 2017

The Weather is the seventh studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band Pond. It was released on 5 May 2017 by Marathon Artists. [1] As with previous Pond albums, it is also produced by former member and Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker. It features 10 tracks, led by its first single "Sweep Me Off My Feet".

Contents

Background

Pond frontman Nicholas Allbrook has described the album as a "concept album, not completely about Perth, but focusing on all the weird contradictory things that make up a lot of colonial cities around the world. Laying out all the dark things underneath the shimmering exterior of cranes, development, money and white privilege. It’s not our place, but it is our place. British, but Australian, but not REAL Australian. On the edge of the world with a hell of a lot of fucked things defining our little city, still we try and live a wholesome respectful life, while being inherently disrespectful. At the end of all this confusion in our weird little white antipodean world, there’s the beach, purity and nature that brings us all together". [2]

The album cover shows a photograph of the Carillon City mall in Hay Street, Perth, taken in the early 1980s (Google Street View).

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 80/100
Review scores
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Pitchfork 7.7/10

The Weather received positive reviews from music critics, holding an average critic score of 80, based on 16 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [3] Saby Reyes-Kulkarni of Pitchfork wrote that "For 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." [4] Marcy Donelson for Allmusic described the album as "trippy and shambolic". Donelson also praised its "epic, sometimes otherworldly luster". [5] Gwilym Mumford in The Guardian wrote that the album is "Accessible but still absolutely out there, this is prog, but not as we know it." [6]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."30000 Megatons"Nick Allbrook, Jay WatsonAllbrook4:02
2."Sweep Me Off My Feet"Allbrook, WatsonAllbrook3:29
3."Paint Me Silver"Allbrook, Watson, Todd Rundgren Allbrook3:44
4."Colder Than Ice"WatsonWatson3:10
5."Edge of the World, Pt. 1"Allbrook, WatsonAllbrook4:54
6."A/B"Allbrook, WatsonAllbrook3:28
7."Zen Automaton"AllbrookAllbrook4:01
8."All I Want for Xmas (Is a Tascam 388)"Joe Ryan, WatsonRyan2:36
9."Edge of the World, Pt. 2"Allbrook, Ryan, WatsonAllbrook6:22
10."The Weather"Allbrook, WatsonAllbrook, Watson3:58
Total length:39:44
2017 Japanese issue bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
11."Fire in the Water"AllbrookAllbrook4:04
Total length:43:48

Personnel

Pond

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [7] 33
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [8] 126
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [9] 132
Scottish Albums (OCC) [10] 83

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