Beloved singer/multi-instrumentalist Nicholas Allbrook shares the sprawling new track “Round Round the Moon and All” as the second single from his upcoming new album Manganese, due out June 9 on digital formats as well as 180g translucent orange 12” vinyl via Spinning Top Records. 

“Round Round the Moon and All” is another showcase of the Pond co-founder/frontman’s touching lyricism as he grapples with “being love sick, wu-tang and crawling around Carillon City on acid”, and features a flute solo from Thea Woodward. The single is accompanied by a video of Allbrook and his band performing the track live at Tunafish studio in Fremantle, Western Australia.

On the new single, Nick shares: “An old song I’ve never been able to record properly. Playing it with Rachel, Tayo, Edo and Cam made it work tho. Thea Woodward again plays magnificent flute.”

As the latest teaser of his upcoming solo record Manganese, “Round Round the Moon and All” follows the glimmering and upbeat lead single “Jackie.” Manganese arrives off the back off a prolific period for Allbrook – from January’s single “If I Hadn’t Met Feefee Brown,” released on Bandcamp to raise funds for the Kimberley Flood Relief, to an extensive world tour as frontman for Pond off the back of their globally acclaimed 2021 record 9 and working with old friend Kevin Parker on an original song ‘Wings of Time’ written for Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves from Paramount Pictures and eOne.

Produced by Allbrook and HOKO (Nathaniel Hoho) and mixed by Jay Watson (GUM, Pond), Allbrook’s fourth solo album away from Pond life is a psyche-pop wonderland. Manganese is the sound of a musician with a symphony in his back pocket, the Eighties history of Oz-rock in his rearview mirror and modern Australia in his sights.

Allbrook has announced a show at Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right on Thursday, July 6 and LA’s Club TeeGee on Saturday, July 8. Tickets for Brooklyn are on sale now and tickets for Los Angeles will go on sale Wednesday, March 29.

Photo Courtesy: Dana Trippe