The next reaction from writer Nic Albrook is nostalgia and hindsight. It’s also worth noting that Albrook also mentions stars on the fuzzy David Bowie-stylized lullaby ‘ Goodnight P.C.C’ as being the birthplace of all humans, as yearns to return there.

Try to understand who you are”, as listeners hear sounds that resemble shooting stars. First they’ll have to tear my head from your heart.” Almost personifying the stars with the lines: “Burn out star, no matter where you are. On one of Pond’s smartest compositions, he confronts the apocalypse like an evil villain destroying a romance: “Perfect body that they’ll never tear apart. These kind of thoughts are also shared in the eight-minute galaxy-gazing prog epic and forebodingly-titled ‘Burnt Out Star’. He’s left his “phone in Sydney, so stressed out”, pleads that he wants to “breathe real air again”, is worried about war and plans to “shack up” in the Tasmanian region before the “o-zone burns”. You wouldn’t know immediately by its juxtaposing semi-seductive 1970’s psychedelic soul vibe, but the character on the title track ‘ Tasmania’ is in a state of impulsive alarm. The first mental state described is panic. For reference, think of the hysteria surrounding the characters in Lars Von Trier’s Armageddon-facing film Melancholia.

Pond’s eight album Tasmania is an intoxicating and realistic collection of the kind of thoughts one would have when attempting to digest an apocalyptic future. This colour-coded graphic explains the record’s album cover, title and starting point for the album’s concept. The last place to be habitable before complete destruction is Tasmania. Lead singer Nic Albrook was acquainted with an environmental scientist a while back who showed him an ominous temperature projection chart of Australia in the next century.

It’s a universal issue of course, but like their previous albums Pond are focusing foremost on the impact it will have on their home country, as last December’s 49.3C heat record and recent flooding over the years have caused the band to worry about the impending environmental doom. Two years after their satirical and amusing commentary on their home city of Perth and the world beyond, in which superficiality was confronted with harsh realities, prolific Australian psychedelic rock band Pond have global warming on their minds this time. “ I might go and shack up in Tasmania before the ozone goes and Paris burns.

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