@ Catalyst, Knoxville, March 1
by Andrew Clayman
Published in The Metro Pulse, February 2009
No offense to Matt and Kim, but they’re kind of the exact sort of band that unites metalheads, hip-hoppers, and Toby Keith fans in their total disdain for “indie kids.” Everything about this group seems like it was pulled from a modern hipster how-to guide. They’re from Brooklyn (Yeasayer, Chairlift, MGMT, etc), they’re an adorable boy-girl duo (Mates of State, She & Him), and they’re an adorable boy-girl duo from Brooklyn (High Places). Their new album Grand spells out its title in that obnoxious, sketchy-block Juno font. The guy in the band, Matt, uses the word “rad” a lot. The girl in the band, Kim, wears an eye patch in one of her Myspace pictures. They both wear cool shoes.
Oh, and they also play music. It’s basically the Brooklyn soup de jour—retro ‘80s synthesizers mixed with some boom-boom beats and whiney, amateur vocals. It’s not bad. In fact, live in concert, Matt & Kim are probably good fun. I suspect Matt hops up and down behind his keyboard while Kim smiles at him from behind her cymbals. Most of the girls in the audience will likely have bangs and be wearing thrift store dresses—no, hoodies. This is more of a hoodie band. And don’t we all like hoodies?
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