Several Arrows Later
by Matt Pond
  • Record Label: Altitude
  • Release Date: Oct 11, 2005
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Urb
    60
    A lush, relaxing listen. [Jan/Feb 2006, p.103]
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  2. Paste Magazine
    60
    Another nice-enough album of sweetly sighing chamber pop that marks yet another incremental step forward. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.109]
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  3. PopMatters
    50
    Perhaps this slightly bland direction is one that Matt Pond PA was always headed making this record a totally expected arrival point. But somehow their earlier brand of chamber pop, full of lush strings, and Pond's cloying but touching lyrics seemed to promise something a little more than the pedestrian virtues of Several Arrows Later.
  5. Pitchfork
    40
    So maybe Pond really is just another ordinary-guy exemplar of the ongoing post-Coldplay adult contemporarization of indie, as his ordinary arrangements and ordinarier songs would attest.

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User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. ChadS
    Feb 21, 2006
    9
    Matt Pond PA sounds like a less wussy-Toad the Wet Sprocket. If Pond sold out, he could easily have written "All I Want". I think the best Matt Pond PA sounds like a less wussy-Toad the Wet Sprocket. If Pond sold out, he could easily have written "All I Want". I think the best track is "It is Safe". I can see the beach Pond is waxing melancholic about. There's more adventurous bands out there, but how is that Animal Collective album going to sound in twenty years? You're more likely to reach for "Several Arrows Later".… Full Review »
  2. matta
    Dec 28, 2005
    8
    Very fine album. He's compared by one reviewer to Nada Surf, but this is Stronger than Nada Surf's latest release. Really not a bad Very fine album. He's compared by one reviewer to Nada Surf, but this is Stronger than Nada Surf's latest release. Really not a bad song, and a few really great ones (Halloween, Several Arrows Later). The people giving low marks are most likely a bunch of Sleater-Kinney, Hypermagic Mountain fans who don't want to admit to liking instrospective, quieter music because they are afraid of being labeled as pussies.… Full Review »
  3. Bailey
    Dec 18, 2005
    10
    A great CD -- reminds me of very early REM, with a dreamy, multilayered sound and amazing hooks. I've already had four songs on "repeat" A great CD -- reminds me of very early REM, with a dreamy, multilayered sound and amazing hooks. I've already had four songs on "repeat" -- it's been years since I bought a CD that made me do that.… Full Review »
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