With the right sort of friends you can make a brilliant musical discovery pretty much everyday, and luckily for us CMU-ers not only have we got the right sort of friends, we've also got lots of em. Well, seven, but that's one for every day of the week. And it was through one of them (the friend I like to call "Tuesday") that I discovered rising New York duo Matt And Kim. Coming highly recommended from our American chums, they've actually recently released a 7" only single, 'Silver Tiles', through Moshi Moshi here in the UK, their second (I think) release so far. And with Moshi's sterling rep and some good ol graft it's hard to see how their synth heavy indie won't catch on, bridging the gap between The Killers' stadium rock and Shy Child's keytarific dance punk with aplomb. It's undeniably fun and simple stuff, as their song 'Yea Yeah' probably best demonstrates. Indeed, not since The Subways has lyrical banality proved so popular, with both Matt and Kim clearly displaying no literary aspirations as they sing: "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah (etc etc)".
http://www.myspace.com/mattandkim