From a cabin in the woods outside of Bearsville, NY - where there's nothing much to do but watch the grass grow up with the coyotes, deer, turkeys, and yes, bears - Matt Pond let go of studio entanglements so he could hack off a piece of his own fate. Trusting in the flicker at the end of the tunnel, he gives us The Dark Leaves. It's been a few years since matt pond PA's, Last Light. And in the meantime, there's been some razing, rooting and rebuilding. You can hear it in the song “Ruins”, and you can feel it in a strain called “Remains”. Here’s MPPA now: out of the gate on “Running Wild”, in a Louisville backyard, and on to a broken piece of a Miller High Life and then the sidewalk grass of “Brooklyn Fawn” and then to the “Specks” of gold in the Connecticut River.