Matt Pond PA – Still Summer

Labels: 131 Records / co-sign
Number of Tracks: 1
Total Time: 3:11
Formats: Triple A, AAA, Non-Commercial, NPR
Available Date & Time: June 8, 2017 02:00 PM ET
Impact Date: July 3, 2017
Country: USA

To Release Twelfth and Final Full Length, Still Summer, August 11

New album features Laura Stevenson, Laura Burhenn (of The Mynabirds), Caroline Reese and Anya Marina

"Still Summer" Premiered via NPR’s All Songs Considered

"Pond was already a master of couching wistful reflection in rousing anthems, and "Still Summer" demonstrates that skill to wondrous effect: Playfully retro synths and chant-along choruses ("I won’t let go / I won’t let go / I won’t") all contribute to a hook-packed snapshot of late-summer love and its bittersweet aftermath. If "Still Summer" had been recorded by The Cars in 1984, it’d already be a classic." – NPR’s Stephen Thompson

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Praise on the recent album Winter Lives (released last November):

"Pond distills nostalgia, change, growing up, and staying the same into an album full of moving songs bolstered by strings … captures the exuberant thrill of looking back, as well as the bittersweet tang of childhood memories." – Elle.com (Best Songs of November)

"The new album from Matt Pond PA, Winter Lives, may have the coming season in its title, but its shimmering harmonies are perfect for setting suns, windy streets, and the cooling temperatures. The American indie-pop orchestration of the songs makes for a full and sweeping sound."
– A.V. Club

"And that’s the point, isn’t it? To find art that lifts you up, makes you feel every part of your soul, and brings you back down to reality. Well, Matt Pond PA doesn’t short us of that exhilarating feeling. Never have, never will." – Impose Magazine

"It’s an anthemic, jangly rocker that kinda finds the middle ground between Springsteenian heartland rock and Gin Blossoms-y alternative rock." – Brooklyn Vegan

All year round, it’s still summer. And indie rocker Matt Pond’s adventure continues. The brakes are shot, the pickup truck is rusted through and overheating. Everyone is out of their minds.

Matt Pond is not outspoken, but he loves to speak and to be spoken to. To dive into the frigid water of understanding and trust the depth. To write songs that make sense of ridiculous daily dissonance, beautifully failed relationships, of the brilliant miscalculations in an easy whisper. It’s that simple: It was all for the experience; it was all for the ride.

At around ninety-five miles an hour, the steering wheel will start to uncontrollably shake in most high-mileage, fifteen-passenger vans. At the same speed and in the same state of mind, it’s nearly impossible to navigate the murky world of music. Since its inception in Philadelphia in 1998, Matt Pond PA has traveled a road of perpetual transformation, a shifting cast of copilots and collaborators defining the band’s every season.

On August 11, 2017, Matt Pond PA will release Still Summer, their twelfth full-length album and the second Pond is releasing under his independent label, 131 Records. "It’s not about reliving the past," says Pond. "It’s about allowing the present to breathe. It’s about holding hands with ghosts and then letting go."

On this album Pond features the likes of Laura Stevenson, Laura Burhenn, Caroline Reese and Anya Marina. And of course there’s the copilots, Chris Hansen, Shawn Alpay, Mel Guerison and Kyle Kelly-Yahner, right there with him.

Along with Winter Lives, released in December 2016 by 131 Records, Still Summer will be the last full-length album Pond releases as Matt Pond PA, though it isn’t nearly the end of the line for them. Over time, a new track or take will be added to each — this is the never-ending conclusion of the band’s strange musical tour.

There will be more music. Yet the serious ones say summer only lasts so long. Soon there will be new projects, different titles, unfamiliar names, unforeseen sounds associated with Matt Pond. As if the beginning and the end were one and the same.

Connect with Matt Pond PA:

http://mattpondpa.com

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