By far, my absolute favorite album of 2010 was FROND by Australian psychedelic band POND.
Starting with the opening track, Betty Davis(Will Come Down From Heaven to Save Us) you know what kind of a ride you are in for with this band. Wild howling, crashing drums, and freaked out guitars.
I got this album on a whim, based entirely on them being tagged as a "psychedelic" rock band, and I was not disappointed. But the true glory of this album is not the psychedelic rock it is rooted in, but also in the various other genres present underneath the surface. From the funky bass of Cloud City, the pop rock of Annie Orange Tree, to Berlin era Bowie style synth rock of Mussels Tonight? this band skirts across multiple layers of rock while still maintaining a free form psychedelic posture.
As I said, there's a refreshing freestyle feeling to most of the songs construction. This is a band of talented young men laying down the foundation of a song, and then just going crazy on top of it.
POND is definitely a "headphones" band, as I call them. There is so much going on in each song, so many subtle layers of noise, guitars, and synthesizers swirling around underneath the lead riffs and chorus of vocals that you need to immerse yourself in the music and just let it all wash over you.
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