Pond frontman and abstract thinker Nicholas Allbrook returns with his second solo album Pure Gardiya. There’s always been a certain mythos surrounding Allbrook, making him one of Australia’s more intriguing performers.
Opening track In The Gutter features delicately strummed guitars accompanied by a piano, which features prominently throughout the album. The gentle arrangement is juxtaposed with the intensity of the lyrics, setting the tone for an album that comments candidly on the state of Australian politics. Advance follows this lead, borrowing lines from Advance Australia Fair to comment on our sense of national identity and the atrocities that mar the country’s past.