Matt Pond PA giving away The Freeep
Matt Pond PA is giving away a free nine song EP, titled The Freeep. All nine songs can be downloaded at mattpondpa.com. The Freeep comes with a new Matt Pond PA website and music video. The video is for People Have a Way from the band’s latest full-length, Last Light, and mixes clips of vintage video footage, albeit some of the clips are riskay.
Musically, The Freeep carries a smooth quality, heavy on harmonies and makes room for electric guitar leads. The band seems to have purposefully left Matt’s vocals uncompressed to add dynamics and emotion. Three tracks are unnamed instrumentals that break the album up into three pairs of songs with vocals. At first glance, The Freeep is reminiscent of Matt Pond PA’s The Nature of Maps.
Matt Pond PA – Hearts And Minds
Matt Pond journaled about The Freeep:
“We took ourselves captive, and became our own producers, manufacturers, and distributors. It was a deferential revolt against inertia, a clearing of the throat to answer the quiet. Or maybe it was an inevitable reaction to seeing Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.In adherence to our own demands, these songs were recorded in a cabin in Bearsville, NY, as a simple sonic manifestation of our opinions concerning the arguable value of a waterlogged paperback.”
Matt Pond PA – The Freeep tracklisting:
1. Hearts and Minds
2. Our Braided Lives
3. #5
4. One and Only
5. Imperfect
6. #3
7. First Light
8. Amazing Life
9. #1