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Hi everyone! Over the last few days, I did a complete relisten of their entire discography and put together my album ranking. Let me know what you think and what your own ranking looks like!

1. “The Weather” (9/10)

The most mature album in their repertoire and the one that transitions them into a new phase heavily driven by '80s retro/synth/new wave sounds. It is the record that stands out the most from their previous material: the guitars are more sparse, leaving room for their most synth-focused album yet.

Favorite tracks: “Fire in the water”, “30000 megatons”, “Colder than ice”.

2. “Stung!” (9/10)

Their most self-aware, delicate, and intimate album. A fully realized masterpiece—perhaps even more so than The Weather—that doesn't have a single filler track. The guitars make a stronger comeback here; it’s the album that best synthesizes all of Pond's different souls, and it’s the first one I would recommend to a newcomer.

Favorite tracks: “Constant picnic”, “Fell from grace with the sea”, “OU V-Ray”.

3. “Man it feels like space again” (8.5/10)

The most glam, easygoing, and yet somehow the more mature sibling to Hobo Rocket. Psychedelia gives way to space rock and long synth solos. We are definitively in Pond's middle phase: no longer just a band of hippies, but not yet the synthwave group they would become from the next record onward.

Favorite tracks: “Waiting around for grace”, “Holding out for you”, “Man it feels like space again”.

4. “Tasmania” (8/10)

Their brightest and most sun-drenched album. An anthem to nature and beauty. Probably also Pond's best album from a production standpoint—it's incredibly clean. The sunset atmospheres of Beard, Wives, Denim return in a more mature, reworked guise to build the album that marked the band's definitive consecration.

Favorite tracks: “Daisy”, “Selené”, “Sixteen days”.

5. “9” (7.5/10)

An album with somewhat dark and melancholic atmospheres; it carries a certain bitter aftertaste and definitely feels less carefree compared to Pond's usual output. In my opinion, it has too many filler moments, but despite this, it maintains a high standard. It almost seemed to pave the way toward new sounds, but the following album starts from completely different premises.

Favorite tracks: “Toast”, “Song for Agnes”, “Take me Avalon”.

6. “Beard, Wives, Denim” (7/10)

The record that flawlessly closes Pond's early, youthful era—a well-rounded album, although still immature, but highly coherent and solid. It’s a nostalgic record that tastes like summer sunsets, friends, and lightheartedness. After Frond, this is the first album that successfully detaches itself completely from the old-school psychedelia of their earliest phase.

Favorite tracks: “Elegant design”, “When it explodes”, “Fantastic explosion of time”.

7. “Terrestrials” (6.5/10)

A very dry, almost punk album. In my opinion, it betrays the expectations built up with Stung!; guitars return aggressively, with very few synths. You can glimpse an attempt to explore new directions, and some sounds are reminiscent of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, but it feels like a less-than-successful attempt. I hope it grows on me more in the future.

Favorite tracks: “Casuarina”, “Skyworks”, “Fatal shore”.

8. “Hobo Rocket” (5.5/10)

The album of their first transition, but it doesn't quite land. Even though it has its own internal consistency, it feels unfinished, likely weighed down by the definitive distancing from the band's first phase. It is probably Pond's heaviest, most power-blues-rock record, but despite that, it misses out on being memorable. Nevertheless, it is the record where the band's ultimate identity and official lineup finally take shape.

Favorite tracks: “Xanman”, “Giant tortoise”, “Midnight mass”.

9. “Frond” (5/10)

The band's first non-experimental record, even if it retains a certain dose of early-days psychedelia. The band still viewed itself as a collective of musicians without a fixed lineup. Compared to the first two albums, pop tracks appear for the first time, even in a structural sense. There are a few interesting tracks, but the band is still too green and gives the impression of not quite knowing what it wants to be yet.

Favorite tracks: “Sunlight Cardigan”, “Betty Davis”, “Frond”.

10. “Psychedelic Mango” (4/10)

The debut album from these crazy hippies is an experimental work, but one that already hints at the potential of the band's founders. An album that, in its total immaturity, still leaves us with two iconic tracks like “Psychedelic Mango” and “Don’t look at the sun or you’ll go blind”.

11. “Corridors of Blissterday” (3/10)

The band's wild experimentation continues on this record, but this time without a single memorable track. We are still in an embryonic stage—too little to form any meaningful judgment of value.

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