Matt Pond PA: Last Light and tour dates
Matt Pond PA is releasingLast Light today, September 25, on Altitude Records. This is his seventh album and the first time Matt Pond produced his own album. His label among others are trumpeting it as his best yet. Neko Case sings a duet with Matt Pond in Taught To Look Away, just one of the many highlights of this album.
Thirteen tracks make up Pond’s Last Light, one that took over a year to write and record. The iTunes version of Last Light list an additional eight songs to the mix, for a total of twenty-one songs. During the summer he released If You Want Blood EP. The five tracks on the limited print EP are included in the iTunes version of Last Light, along with a clean version of Sunlight and two additional songs: Curves In The Road and First Light. Curves In The Road is a bonus track on the LP version of Last Light.
Matt Pond PA is ready to tour, burying the axe two days after the release, and staying on the road until November 5. The fall tour will take them in a complete circle, from his New York City home to Portland, down to San Diego and across to Atlanta, then back to Brooklyn. Matt Pond will be backed up by Daniel Crowell, Steven Jewett, Matthew Daniel Siskin, and Chris Hansen.
Matt Pond consistently blogs with vulnerable words, sorting things out in his mind, as an open journal for his fans to read. “The reason I moved to New York,” explained the former New Hampshire resident, was September 11. “I don’t know how to explain that to anyone.” His band has begun to post amateur videos on YouTube, with the latest video of the band singing karaoke… any way to connect with his fans, even if it’s a video of Pond building a fire on a beach.
The past year certainly came with curves in the road. Last Light was finished in September of 2006, and was originally slated for a spring release. A minefield of unexpected member changes forced Pond to delay the release of this album.
Pond formed a side-project called The Dark Leaves during the wait, releasing a four song self-titled EP. Matt strained his voice while recording for The Dark Leaves EP and practicing for his band, so his doctor ordered him to a whisper during the month of April. “In the process of recording and practicing, I’ve stretched my voice to the point where it stops making more than a scratchy gurgle.”
Matt Pond wrote, “The fall is for touring. And touring. And touring. We spend our summer in anxious anticipation of finally being able to rock with you. All night.”
Last Light track listing:
1. Last Light
2. People Have a Way
3. Locate the Pieces
4. Wild Girl
5. Honestly
6. Taught to Look Away
7. Sunlight
8. Basement Parties
9. Until the East Coast Ends
10. Foreign Bedrooms
11. The Crush
12. Giving It All Away
13. It’s Not So Bad At All
Last Light iTunes additional tracks:
14. Curves In The Road
15. First Light
16. Reading
17. Magic Boyfriend
18. Everything Until the East Coast Ends
19. If You Live
20. If You Want Blood
21. Sunlight (Clean Version)
Matt Pond PA – Taught To Look Away
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9/27 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
9/28 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
9/29 – Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s
10/1 – Washington D.C. – 9:30 Club
10/2 – Pittsburgh, PA – Diesel
10/4 – Columbus, OH – The Basement
10/5 – Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
10/6 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
10/7 – Chicago, IL – Double Door
10/8 – Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
10/11 – Vancouver, BC – The Plaza Club
10/12 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir
10/14 – Seattle, WA – Chop Suey
10/16 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
10/17 – Los Angeles, CA – The Troubadour
10/19 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah
10/20 – Phoenix, AZ – Modified Arts
10/22 – Dallas, TC – Cambridge Room at House of Blues
10/23 – Austin, TX – Antone’s
10/24 – Houston, TX – Meridian
10/26 – Atlanta, GA – The Loft
10/27 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
10/28 – Birmingham, AL – Vulcan Park
10/29 – Nashville, TN – Exit/In
11/2 – Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony
11/4 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
11/5 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg