At the turn of the 2010’s, Western Australia was going through a boom, counter to the general economic downturn, thanks to the discovery of fresh seams of mineral deposits in its deserted expanses. Perth’s music scene shared in the wealth via government arts funding, so, consciously or not, their collective post-millennial take on sunshine-psych channeled that positive energy locally. POND was formed during those years, as “a Royal Trux-cum-Cream power trio”, fronted by Allbrook with Jay Watson and Joe Ryan. Their rhythm section at any time was fairly ad-hoc; Kevin Parker was their drummer for a bit, while he launched his own project, known as Tame Impala. Sessions follows on from Pond’s most critically acclaimed album to date, Tasmania. Their eighth studio album was produced and mixed by Kevin Parker and Pond and acts as some kind of sister missive to their 2017 opus The Weather. The LP features the grandiose ‘The Boys Are Killing Me’, alt-pop an them ‘Daisy’, psychedelic space romp ‘Sixteen Days’ and spatial adventure ‘Burnt Out Star'.**