matt pond PA: The Dark Leaves

"Since the release of their first album, Deer Apartments, in 1998, matt pond PA has witnessed several incarnations and a largely transformed music industry. Yet, throughout all the change, the band's eponymous founder continued to write his songs of reflection and redemption, and this past April, released one of his best records to date, The Dark Leaves. As with many of matt pond PA's albums, The Dark Leaves emerged from personal struggle. In a soft voice, one wholly different from the fog-washed tenor that has won him acclaim, Matt Pond explains: 'The record came from my most down musical time; a depressed personal time not just with the ladies, but with friends and where I lived. Most of the songs I write, I write to myself, and I was trying to convince myself that things were better than I thought. ...' The Dark Leaves' tight arrangements belie the fact that Pond's band has seen twenty-two members come and go since its inception" (Ben Evans, "The Perpetual Matt Pond," Huffington Post, 11/3/10).

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