The satisfaction one gets out of a Matt and Kim show is quite similar to the satisfaction one gets out of popping a single piece of Bubble Wrap: dammit, you just want to do it again. And louder, this time! The Brooklyn duo will bring its newest installment of infectious tunes to the Beaumont on June 22, in support of their new album, Sidewalks.
As for what the show will be like -- the answer is a fucking blast, by the way -- here's a quick snippet of my review of the band's show at The Granada last summer:
In the face of the duo's sinewy, sweaty pace, it wasn't hard to imagine Matt and Kim's legendary early shows, played in the center of a sweltering basement with a crowd of rabid fans dancing in a mob around them. (In fact, The Granada re-created the ecstatic, smelly intimacy of a D.I.Y. show pretty effectively. As Johnson later quipped, "It's good that there aren't any diseases that can be transmitted through sweat 'cause we'd have a cesspool going on in here.")
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