Description
Bardo Pond – Melt Away – Double Vinyl Record
B-Sides and Rarities from 96-99 collected for the first time on 2XLP
Bardo Pond’s Melt Away is a deep-dive into the band’s late-’90s creative peak, pulling together a full double-LP’s worth of rarities, outtakes, and hard-to-find tracks from the era when their Matador releases were defining the outer edges of American psychedelia. It’s not a “best of” in the usual sense—it’s the molten overflow: extended grooves, alternate angles, and pieces that slipped between proper albums but still carry the same hallucinatory DNA. If you love the slow-heave trance of Amanita, the scuzzed-out propulsion of Lapsed, or the immersive drift of Set and Setting, this set feels like discovering an extra room in that same house—familiar atmosphere, new corridors.
Melt Away delivers the full Bardo Pond spell: thick, fuzz-lacquered guitars that blur into shimmering sheets, a rhythm section that locks into stubborn, hypnotic motion, and Isobel Sollenberger’s voice drifting through it all like a human signal in the fog—present, intimate, and slightly out of phase in the best way. The collection moves from more compact, riff-forward burners to longform dissolves where repetition becomes the point and time starts to bend. Tracks like “The Trail” are prime examples of what makes the band so addictive: a steady, earthly pulse that gradually turns uncanny, as if the song is quietly changing the air in the room without announcing it.
For collectors and longtime fans, Melt Away is a vital companion piece to the classic run—material that used to be scattered across compilations and obscure releases, now unified into one immersive listening experience. For newcomers, it’s a perfect way to hear how Bardo Pond’s “in-between” recordings are often just as essential as the albums: more raw edges, more sideways explorations, and the same unmistakable heavy-lush psych haze that the band practically patented.
Melt Away, the new double LP compilation, catalogues late-’90s rarities and outtakes from a creative apex in Bardo Pond’s career
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic
Track Listing
Olive Skin
Tapir Dub
Son Of Dispersion
Anadamide (Complete)
Shadow Puppet
The Division Of Nature
The Trail
Long Ride
Despite The Roar (In Spite Of Themselves)
Highlands
