Matt & Kim - Grand reviews
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| Pitchforkmedia. |
 Maturity is a good look for some bands, but Matt & Kim, at first glance, don't seem the type. Over the past four years, the Brooklyn-based duo made its name from a joyously amateurish EP, a cheerily sloppy debut full-length, and an energetic live show that left a string of sweaty, satisfied audiences in its wake. Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino took Mates of State's spare, co-ed, drum'n'keys set-up and bled it of anything mannered or pretty, leaving just raw, bleeting synthesizers, shouty singing, and relentless drumming. So the last thing we'd expect from this spazzy synth-punk band is a slowed down, gussied-up sophomore effort, but Matt & Kim wear their newfound growth surprisingly well.
Their previous recorded material was more like their propulsive stage show, so the first thing you'll notice about Grand is the band explores new textures and diverse dynamics. More than half of the 11-song album lives in the mid- downtempo range, making Grand feel more wistful and intimate than its predecessors-- likely the result of recording in Johnson's childhood bedroom in Vermont. "Don't Slow Down", despite its title and "Just Can't Get Enough"-like staccato melody, proves an insistent kick drum and repeated keyboard stabs can sound reflective and poignant. "Spare Change" buoys its droning, buried organ with handclaps and foot stomps but still manages to sound vulnerable and lonely amid the raucous percussion. And "Turn This Boat Around", a drum-free ballad built on a charming calliope-like keyboard melody, is almost reverent in its relative stillness....full text |
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| Spin |
| Matt and Kim (their real names) come on like a punked-up Mates of State -- a couple so cute that you'd walk away from their frantic live shows feeling mushy, if someone hadn't just mushed you. But the love songs on their second album are for their home borough of Brooklyn as much as for each other. The tap-dancing keyboards and pounding drums of "Daylight" and "Don't Slow Down" soundtrack the duo's reflections on what it's like to be poor and young in the city, where your fire escape is your backyard and your summer wardrobe is your spring wardrobe plus scissors....full text |
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| Boston |
| Few descriptions can activate the force fields of cutesy-indie-rock skeptics faster than "twee," "Brooklyn," and "coed duo." And those skeptics are probably gonna want to sit out the second effort from twee, Brooklyn, coed duo Matt & Kim. But if you've spent time sitting outside an all-ages rock club or haunting a vegan video game cafe, or wherever it is kids congregate nowadays, this cavalcade of minimalist organ and drum pop that flits and twits between skewed, sugar rush abandon ("Daylight") and romantic, robotic chanting ("I'll Take Us Home") will read like blueprints for kicking back in the city. Heaving strings on the climax of the hurtling "Cutdown" only add to the cinematic, indie-kids-on-the-loose feel. But for the most part the album is a galloping goof, with vocalist and keyboard player Matt Johnson hamming his way through a series of rousing blog-pop gems. With more traditional rock instrumentation, tracks like "I Wanna" might come off as punk rock, but as is, it sounds like they're having too much fun for any sort of angst to bleed through. (Out Jan. 20) LUKE O'NEIL...full text |
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