Dilate, the fifth Bardo record, is titled in their tradition of using a drug reference as a title. For the band, these titles are less about using drugs then they are metaphors for lifting one out of one's self, opening up, dilating. While new drummer Ed Farnsworth may be the only physical manifestation of how the band has changed, the record shows a stupefying leap forward. Their ominous and solipsistic intensity keeps breathing underneath, yet their sound is something new and expanded. While they'v   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT! Dilate, the fifth Bardo record, is titled in their tradition of using a drug reference as a title. For the band, these titles are less about using drugs then they are metaphors for lifting one out of one's self, opening up, dilating. While new drummer Ed Farnsworth may be the only physical manifestation of how the band has changed, the record shows a stupefying leap forward. Their ominous and solipsistic intensity keeps breathing underneath, yet their sound is something new and expande   [ read more ]

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Not changing all that much but whipping up just as compelling a mix of drone, volume, and blissout as before, on Amanita the now officially-a-quintet Pond cranked the amps, switched on the pedals, and let fly with 11 monster songs. After a four-minute series of guitar feedback and fuzz, Limerick f   [ read more ]

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The album was recorded in their home town, Philadelphia, Pa, and the result is some kind of heavy, hard-to-pinpoint solid action that we haven't heard since, say, their last album or when we last listened to High Tide, Slayer or early Skullflower.

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The broken-down blues of Bardo Pond might just alter the world. The cilia-pulling strains of Set and Setting become utterly more infectious with each new spin. It's as though Bardo Pond is tugging the earth into their psychedelic orbit without anyone's knowledge or consent. The ban   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT + CD! Batholith is a collection of six tracks that are near and dear to Bardo Pond but, for some reason or another, have never previously been released. That one-sentence description might lead one to think that these tracks are "outtakes" or cutting-room floor type material - neither conclusion could be further from the truth. The tracks included on Batholith range from previous live staples ("A Tune," one made 'famous' by opening Bardo's set at Terrastock II in San Francisco as    [ read more ]

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Early 2003 saw Tom Carter performing a string of shows on the East Coast, including a stop in Philadelphia at the Tritone where he joined Bardo Pond on stage to play a quiet, subdued set. While these musicians had known each other for a while, they had never formally collaborated before. On April 23, all of the players convened at the Pond's Lemur House studio to prepare for the show. Those preparations were done with a tape running -- and the results stunned everyone. While they expected things to work out   [ read more ]

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Following their 2003 ATP release On The Ellipse, Philadelphia indie-psych drone masters Bardo Pond return with a new offering comprised of rare unreleased tracks that have previously only been available in limited numbers as CD-Rs at the band's live shows. Selections is the band's seventh full-length release, and documents the highlights of their career, re-mastered and repackaged by ATP. Formed in 1989 by brothers John and Michael Gibbons, Bardo Pond is one of the most seriously underrated ba   [ read more ]

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Dilate, the fifth Bardo record, is titled in their tradition of using a drug reference as a title. For the band, these titles are less about using drugs then they are metaphors for lifting one out of one's self, opening up, dilating. While new drummer Ed Farnsworth may be the only physical manifestation of how the band has changed, the record shows a stupefying leap forward. Their ominous and solipsistic intensity keeps breathing underneath, yet their sound is something new and expanded. While they'v   [ read more ]

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It starts with feedback, hum, and fuzz, then a heavy guitar riff emerging from the murk -- arguably Bardo Pond in a nutshell. Then again, enough other bands do the same thing, so why should the Pond get singled out? It's hard to pin down an exact reason, but whatever it is that a band needs to connect, they've got it. The slow, stony pace that [ read more ]

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