Released in October 2021 and produced by Pond and mixed by Jay Watson and James Ireland, on 9, Ponds explorations are funneled into electrifying bursts of pure psych-pop joy. No tune even veers past the five minute mark.

Above all though, what you get from the album is a sense of creative abandon and just plain fun. The album features the vacillating psych-rock jam Human Touch, the blissed out Toast, the elastic hipped robo-funk single Americas Cup and the high energy, no-wave lead track Pink Lunettes, On 9, Pond recaptures an anarchic sense of uncertainty and fly closer than ever before to the creative supernova that has blazed across so much of the bands music.

Featuring new tracks Lights of Leeming and