Bardo Pond - Volume 8

Volume 8 is an album by the American band Bardo Pond, released in 2018 through Fire Records.

It features five tracks — Kailash, Flayed Wish, Power Children, Cud and And I Will — and runs for about forty minutes of dense, hypnotic sound. The record continues Bardo Pond’s signature approach to heavy psychedelia, blending layers of distorted guitars and extended instrumental passages with the ethereal flute and distant vocals of Isobel Sollenberger. Volume 8 unfolds as an introspective, spiritual journey where rock, drone and improvisation merge into a continuous state of trance. It is a free-form and atmospheric work, more focused on sonic exploration than on conventional song structure, reaffirming the band’s position as a cornerstone of experimental psych rock.