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Nov 10, 2010Catchy verses and get-your-hands-up chants are layered among '80s synth and keyboard lines on these 10 tracks.
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Nov 1, 2010With little more than plinking and repetitive, if deliriously catchy keyboard riffs, straightforward dance-punk beats, and jocular vocal whimsy, their third record keeps the party going hard - even if it's more the cake-and-ice-cream variety.
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Nov 1, 2010On Sidewalks, Matt and Kim seem intent on capturing the curious with a bigger, more pumped-up sound: Check the booming hip-hop beat on ''Cameras'' and the parade-ready horn blasts that take ''Ice Melts'' into rowdy jock-jam territory.
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Jan 7, 2011Other than a few missteps, Sidewalks displays a calmer, more self-assured band that seems to have graduated from a one-note "new-wave White Stripes" shtick.
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Mar 29, 2011For a record that veers between hit and miss, there is a certain amount of charm and vibrancy that keeps one coming back for more.
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Nov 11, 2010Some people might Matt & Kim's music is without substance, totally incapable of being a sustainable addition to the sonic landscape. I submit that their saccharine hooks, covered in a coating of post-adolescent confusion, is just the opposite.
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Nov 3, 2010Sidewalks often inflates the worst attributes of Matt & Kim's big sound (overly simplistic lyrics, crude synth melodies, shouty singing) and smothers much of its sugar-rush energy and joyously defiant attitude in studio flourishes.
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Nov 1, 2010Even emo and chamber music get roped into Sidewalks' exclamatory gush, verifying that there truly is no sound these two won't use to support their almost religious commitment to spreading huge grins.
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Nov 22, 2010While the recipe seems simple-squiggly synths and catchy keyboard earworms mixed with an all-over-the-place beat-Matt & Kim throw magic dust into their drinking water.
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