Throughout the years Pond enlisted a rotating cast of collaborators for recording and touring, including cellists Jim Hostetter and Eve Miller, violinist Rosie McNamara-Jones, drummers Mike Kennedy and Dan Crowell, bassists Matt Raisch and Josh Kramer, and guitarists Jim Kehoe and Brian Pearl.

Their sophomore album, Measure, was released in 2000 and a follow-up EP I Thought You Were Sleeping was issued the following year.

Pond relocated to Brooklyn in 2003 and recorded the band's breakthrough album, Emblems, which was released on Altitude in 2004.

In 2008 the band released a free EP entitled The Freeep which was later sold under the name Auri Sacra Fames in 2009.

Holing up in a cabin in Upstate New York, Pond recorded The Dark Leaves with producer Chris Hansen and several other guest musicians in 2010.

In 2011, Matt Pond PA released his EP titled Spring Fools, which included three songs.

The band recorded and released 2015's The State of Gold while simultaneously playing anniversary tours for both Emblems and Several Arrows Later.

Matt Pond launched 131 Records in the summer of 2016 from a desire to retain complete control over his musical process.

[10] After reacquiring the rights to 2015's The State of Gold from their former record label, the band released a "resequenced, remastered and partially re-recorded" version of the album on September 24, 2021.