Matt Pond PA - The Nature of Maps.....

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I just got this today and am really enjoying it. Great pop.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 31 March 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

and there are cello's.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 31 March 2003 15:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

They are even more wonderful live.

Maps is a little more upbeat and busy than their other stuff, but really, I love it all. Gorgeous music.

Our 5 CD player is currently filled with 5 Matt Pond PA CDs and rotates happily for hours on Sunday mornings.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 31 March 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was first exposed to these guys opening for The Dismemberment Plan a couple of years ago. Really cool stuff. I have their album, Measure, but find it hard to listen to for more than 15-20 minutes. They were awesome live, though, and it's certainly not a knock on the quality of the songs, it's just that it can sound monotonous over long periods.

― Ian Johnson, Monday, 31 March 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

― chuck, Monday, 31 March 2003 16:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Summer is Coming is fantastic.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 31 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, Chuck.

Ian's got the right idea - great live, but you need to be in The Mood to really enjoy them on record. _Measure_ is my favorite (though some of the interludes drag a wee bit).

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 03:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Closer" is one of those songs that makes me remember why pop music is so so so so good.

― Sean@tangmonkey (Sean M), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 00:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm sorry, I can't stop laughing because of Chuck's comment. And I haven't even heard the band!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 00:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Check em out Ned. You'll hate them. Maybe...

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 10:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Heres some mp3's.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 10:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've listened to "Closer" 500 times today, Sean your right.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

I quite like the MP3 on that site. They are familiar.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Here are some more.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Get on it people. Great shit.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 3 April 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

yay.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

eleven months pass...

"Emblems" has leaked. Its wonderful.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

he lives underneath me. literally. i hear him crooning.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i've had to listen to "Closer" around 400 times, as I'm editing the music video, and remarkably it still holds up.

― mingering, Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

"Several Arrows Later" is out and its good.

― bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 09:03 (eighteen years ago) link

this is a buzz band. (nothing else they have done that i have heard has come close to "closer".)

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 09:14 (eighteen years ago) link

true, that is my favorite song by MPPA...

― bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 09:28 (eighteen years ago) link

how can a band still be a buzz band on their fourth (fifth?) album?

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

who said anything about "still"? the buzz is new. so say i, internet buzzmaster.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

(oh and while i bet they're nice people, i don't think they're a particularly good band.)

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

their version of "in the areoplane over the sea" kinda makes me want to kill them

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, it's either a forgivable cash-grab, a naive tribute, or an artistically vacant piece of shit, yeah.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

this record is decent. thats it.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

decent. not mind-numbing, either in the awesome sense or the stupid sense.

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

In what Bizarro world is an NMH cover a cash grab???

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

when it's recorded for an episode of "the OC"

you probably wish you had that back.

― jb, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

ah, but it was recorded for an EP then used in the OC... i.e. not recorded just for the show, unlike their cover of the oasis song.

so... do you now wish you hadn't taken that back? i'm confused.

― np, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

also fwiw i'm strangely fond on the new mppa -- their old albums don't do much for me (but i do love, yes, 'closer'). 'spring provides' in particular i think is killer in that it sounds like peter gabriel covering "time after time" which is obviously awesome.

― np, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

jb, watch what you say.

― dan. (dan.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

...sorry, wrong jb.

― dan. (dan.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

they live next door to me. they were doing photoshoots on the stoop last week.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

'spring provides' in particular i think is killer in that it sounds like peter gabriel covering "time after time" which is obviously awesome

I am now more interested in Matt Pond PA than ever before. Will have to see if this is up on eMusic...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Is this a "seven degrees of MPPA" thing? They've slept on my floor.

Anybody else?

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

i went on a few dates with a guy who used to play in the band.

also, i attended the infamous afterparty for magnet magazine's 10 year anniversary at MPPA's house where some party crashers broke a bottle over his head and he was rushed to the hospital to get *staples*.

i could continue to namedrop, but im really not feelin' it today.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i was at the whole foods off South Street in Philly a few years back doing my grocery shopping, when Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night" came on over the in-store PA. No matter where I went, I could hear someone in the store whistling along with the song, very loudly. I rounded the corner and discovered that 'someone' was Matt Pond PA.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

also, i refuse to believe the activity found in this thread. surely there must be more interesting things to talk about today, yesno?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link

who are you, keyth? we get your point.

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

There's a new release today, The Dark Leaves.

I LOVED Several Arrows Later when I first heard it, then I went back to listen to his earlier stuff and it was much softer, less energetic, generally just a bit too limp to enjoy for me. Did his future albums maintain that feel or where there other records that were more similar?

― Nhex, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link

three years pass...

So, these guys?

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 31 October 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link

i never did get around to getting his later albums, but i still love Several Arrows Later

― Nhex, Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link

five years pass...

"The Butcher" is lighting up my ears right now, spring in a bottle. Bounce back and forth between Emblems and Several Arrows Later as my favorite, but all of their releases are very good. Grateful that a friend turned me on to them so many years ago now, searching for something to fill the void after Lullaby for the Working Class' three.

― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqW-MofVYsM

Bandcamp pre-order up for The Natural Lines, MPPA rebranded. "The Problem is Me", first song/video.

― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 9 September 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link

Haven't listened lately, but I remember liking his 2007 album, as said in this preview for a Columbus OH off-campus weekly:

Matt Pond PA
Thursday @The Basement
Singer-songwriter-bandleader Matt Pond is indeed from PA, with a knack for UK-associated, glum but fervent, rainy day rock-soul-pop, in the tradition of the Kinks and the Zombies, Pulp and the Cure. Pond’s new album, Last Light, the first he’s produced, is concise and varied, building moody momentum. Guests include Neko Case, Kelly Hogan, Bardo Pond’s Isobelle Sollenberger, Beck/Elliot Smith henchman Rob Schnapf, and chamber rock arranger/multi-instrumentalist Brian Pearl. Pond’s basic combo is also tight and adaptable, but can they cut it live, without the reinforcements? We’ll see.

Didn't go, so don't know (wasn't in town).

― dow, Friday, 9 September 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link

huh - says they're NY based but album is selling in GBP on bandcamp

― Nhex, Saturday, 10 September 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link

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