I’ve loved Matt Pond and his talented entourage for years. Just after falling into adulthood, I had the extreme pleasure of interviewing him, and jotted a few words down about his 2013 album, The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hands.
Yesterday I stumbled upon a new summer song by the wandering New Hampshire native. It’s the first track off his upcoming album, The State of Gold, out June 30.
I find Pond’s heart-aching, mellow music closer to poetry than the folky, indie pop albums of his peers. This latest track is sweet and filled with wanderlust. It settles into your ears and heart like an old memory. I love that his music consistently sounds familiar without being predictable.
“It’s strange how much the natural world can bring me back to life,” Pond has said about his latest single. “Sometimes I see us all as variations of Frankenstein’s monster, trying to get back into warmth of the world. Or maybe we’re totally different. But ‘Take Me With You’ refers to the shared rope I imagine we climb out of our separate darknesses, into the blast of light.”
Into the light we go.
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