![]() ![]() On numbers like “Sweep Me Off My Feet” and “Paint Me Silver”-both love songs drenched in falsetto and synths-it’s almost hard to tell the two albums apart. Halfway through the song, filtered robotic vocals tease that Pond is about to follow in the same footsteps, which proves to be especially true for the album’s first half. The Weather opens with a cloudy arpeggiated synth pattern that introduces leadoff track “30,000 Megatons”-an early signpost that points in the keyboard-heavy blue-eyed soul direction Parker pursued on 2015’s Currents. (Think Queen dressed up as the Replacements or vice-versa.) Pond also keeps threatening to release a record that rivals rock’s all-time classics-creatively if not commercially speaking-and their seventh album, The Weather, is a tantalizing attempt. But where Parker is sedate onstage, Pond combine feral enthusiasm with goofy recklessness, their baroque suites draped in punkish basement-show charm. The two bands share a penchant for grand, arena-sized music that carries the torch for 1970s classic rock.
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