Matt & Kim are a dancey duo out of Brooklyn, N.Y.. Their Feb. 7 show at UCSD's "The Loft" marked the end of Matt & Kim's record release tour for their brand new album, "Grand." Matt & Kim's high-energy songs, consisting of driving drums and catchy synth lines, made for a true party.
The Vista: First off, your energy and smiles are contagious, how do you maintain that energy on stage?
Matt: Well, I think right now it's sort of like, build it up, build it up, and let it out for like 45 minutes, and look at Kim, she's dead right now.
Kim: I am so tired.
M: If she had to do this again, she'd just sleep on her drum set.
V: But somehow the energy would still come across.
K: I'd just kind of like (Kim acts like she's playing the drums and sleeping).
V: So this was the finale of your record release tour. Next up you go on tour with Cut Copy. Are indie fans ready for that duo?
M: They might not know they're ready.
K: Well, we actually didn't know who Cut Copy were, and I was surprised how many people wrote to us really excited that they like Cut Copy and they like us and that they're really happy we're together on the tour.
M: And when we accepted I said we didn't know them, we just saw them on magazines, and we just went to YouTube and typed in "Cut Copy live" and a show came up and it was a whole crowd of people dancing and not staring at their feet and being too cool, just there to have fun and dance, and that just fits.
V: Are there any sorts of summer festival plans in the making?
K: There's actually…
M: Well I don't know…
K: …which ones we're allowed to say.
V: Just a yes to summer festivals?
K: Yeah!
M: Yeah, we love doing festivals. Like you were saying with the Cut Copy crowd, are they ready for a Matt & Kim? And some of them aren't. But once again there's this mash of people who want to go dance. At festivals, people just go open minded to hear music, and I feel like we have the ability to suck them in.
V: My favorite song is "Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare." What for you is a good old fashioned classic nightmare?
K: Freddy vs. Jason!
M: She really has a fear…in life of Freddy vs. Jason.
V: So a living nightmare?
M: Yeah, the thing is almost comedic in a way. If it's gratuitous comedic blood she's terrified. My most common nightmare is just being chased by things. I'm running as fast as I can and it's just killing me.
K: It's funny because I'll be sleeping and wake up to Matt and he's just sitting there doing this (Kim mimics running while asleep).
