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From The Desk Of matt pond PA: Mickey’s Big Mouth

The 11th matt pond PA full-length, Winter Lives, features artwork that evokes Windham Hill’s catalog. Winter Lives arrives 11 years after Pond’s nearly all covers EP, Winter Songs. Pond, a New Hampshire native, understands the season that inspired Winter Lives, but he needed to write winter songs in the spring, so the album would arrive in context. Given his background, Pond didn’t scratch down too far to find inspiration. “It’s just visceral,” he says of winter. “There’s this coldness and shut-down emotional temperament to people in northern places, but when you get through that, there’s so much depth and reality to northern people.” Pond will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com over the next two winter weeks. Read our new feature on him.

Pond: Mickey’s was my teenage answer.

Unscrew the cap for a chance to solve everything. That, or get stumped by the rebus puzzle. And then drink—to either straighten out or fly wrong.

We would chug these in cold cabins during the winter. Our fingers would sting and we were blissfully aware of our own stupidity, for staying out so long and so late in the thick New Hampshire winters.

I grew up with a strong hatred of myself. Analysts might have had better answers. But I chose malt liquor and sarcasm.

Somehow, I made it. (This might be a strange endorsement of malt liquor. Pardon.)