[RSD] Pond - The Early Years: 2008 - 2010 [2LP, 180g, Mango, Record Store Day 2025]

[RSD] Pond - The Early Years: 2008 - 2010 [2LP, 180g, Mango, Record Store Day 2025]Early Years is made up of three albums: Psychedelic Mango (2008), Corridors of Blissterday (2009) and Frond (2010). The first two were never originally mastered, which meant we could just take the 16bit WAV from the CD copies we found and master them for the first time. The CDs, by the way, were from the CD Pressing Plant down the road from us, we just took our digital 8 track files down there and asked for some CDs please!. Frond was mastered and

Pressed on yellow and black "migraine edition" vinyl

I try to change the way pedal steel is supposed to sound

This will be the first in an annual series of archival releases from the band

The Bastard Swordsman is the first Wu-Tang record in 11 years to feature all 9 living members

and piano strings dampened with Silly Putty — AMAMA continues to deepen the band's hypnotic sound in a cohesive line back through 2021's Ice Melt

A priority release from Epitaph

From the live favorite 'You've Got the Love' to the raw Blues-tinged 'Girl with One Eye' to the beautifully painful 'Between Two Lungs'

but the references are evidently harder to pin down

they reunited with Bas (who previously featured on the 'Loving In Stereo' single 'Romeo') for 'Pretty Little Thing'

defiantly punkish recording

" The cover art for Currents was created by Kentucky-based artist and musician Robert Beatty

James Ford and Steve Mackay