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Kid Who Stays in the Picture 

Kid Who Stays In The Picture

Two Weeks

Grand

Lessons Learned

Death Cab for Cutie - Title and Registration

Father John Misty's new song "Mr. Tillman" is out now on Sub Pop and Bella Union. 

Listen To "Mr. Tillman" elsewhere:
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Apple - http://bit.ly/MrTillmanAP
Amazon - http://bit.ly/MrTillmanAZ
YouTube - http://bit.ly/MrTillmanYT

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CREDITS:
Tillman: tambourine, guitar, bass module, drums
Jon Titterington: piano, synth, glockenspiel
Engineered by Jonathan Rado and Dave Cerminara at home and abroad
Mixed by Wilson/Cerminara/Tillman

LYRICS
Mr. Tillman good to see you again 
there’s a few outstanding charges just before we check you in 
let’s see here, you left your passport in the mini fridge and a message with the desk says here the picture isn’t his 
and oh just a reminder about our policy don’t leave your mattress in the rain if you sleep on the balcony 
OK, did you and your guests have a pleasant stay? what a beautiful tattoo that young man had on his face 
oh, will you need a driver out to Philly? 
Jason Isbell’s here as well and he seemed a little worried about you 

I’m feeling good, damn, I’m feeling so fine 
I'm living on a cloud above an island in my mind 
oh baby, don’t be alarmed this is just my vibe 
no need to walk around no it’s not too bad to climb 

Mr. Tillman for the seventh time we have no knowledge of a film that is being shot outside 
those aren't extras in a movie, they're our clientele 
no, they aren’t running lines and they aren’t exactly thrilled 
would you like a regalo on the patio? is there someone we can call? perhaps you shouldn’t drink alone?

God's Favorite Customer

Mr. Tillman

Young The Giant

Apartment

B-Room

Nellie

For many bands, making music is all about the routine of recording an annual album, or being able to tour in progressively bigger venues.  Not Matt and Kim.  "Our goal is to make music we want to hear," says Matt Johnson, who co-founded the band with Kim Schifino. "When it comes time to make a new album, I'm just so excited, since I know we have all these ideas and I just want to get them out there."  As for the band's extra-emphatic live shows, which these days happen in large venues, he explains, "We've always just really enjoyed playing music, and things have kept growing." 
 
Matt and Kim's enthusiasm comes across loud and clear on the band's last album, Lightning, its most diverse and developed to date.  From the relentless drive of “Now” to the dance-fueled beat of “Let’s Go” to the more contemplative “Ten Dollars I Found,” Lightning is the strongest distillation yet of Matt and Kim’s unique sound: a spunky hybrid of indelible songs, an emphatic beat and almost tangible energy, mixed with the duo’s influence of listening nonstop to Top 40 Hip-Hop and pop-punk.
 
To make the album, Matt and Kim spent six months working in their home studio in Brooklyn, producing the record themselves. Lightning is a touch more minimal than their earlier work – with layers taken away, instead of added, enabling its intense performances and memorable tunes to really come to the forefront. “What’s made the songs on this album really strong is we’ve been able to pull a lot off – to not have so much going on – and still have a strong song,” Kim explains.
 
“It’s easier to make a song with a lot going on,” Matt adds. “It feels very safe. It’s like putting on a lot of clothes: you feel all covered up so no one can judge just one aspect of it, but when you try to break it down to be as simple as can be, you’re really baring it all.  When you can see clearly what’s going on, those are the times that the songs are easiest to connect to.”
 
Connecting with their audience is certainly a key focus for Matt and Kim.  The indie dance duo’s live shows – which are legendary for constant, in-your-face exuberance – feel more like vibrant, sweaty loft parties than traditional concerts, for both audiences and the band. “I think we’ve managed to continue to make them feel intimate,” says Matt. “When we first started playing venues instead of playing on the floor at parties, we tried hard to keep the vibe of ‘we’re all doing this together and having a wild time’ going.  The show is not just the two of us: it’s the 3002 of us, or however big the venue is.”  Or, as in the words of Rolling Stone: “Matt and Kim’s reputation as a live act precedes them – and justifiably so. Simply put, they are a two-person dynamo, frantic, tightly wound, and full of good cheer. Their performances are as physical as they are musical. . . . For sheer adrenaline-per-second, no other band comes close.”

The band started in 2004, essentially by accident when Matt and Kim were art students at the prestigious Pratt Institute, where they studied film and illustration, respectively.  When Kim wanted to learn to play drums and Matt (who'd been in bands before) was getting his head around a new keyboard, the band was born. Since then, they have earned a Gold Record for the upbeat, stick-in-your-head track "Daylight," played festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo, along with international festivals like V (U.K), Pukkelpop (Belgium), Fuji (Japan), Big Day Out (Australia), Primavera (Spain), Oya (Norway), SWU (Brazil), as well as hundreds of shows. They have won 3 MTV awards: a Breakthrough Video Music Award and mtvU Best Video Woodie Award for “Lessons Learned”, as well as a 2011 award for Best Live Band. Lightning is the band's fourth album, following Sidewalks, Grand, and their self-titled debut.
 
Matt and Kim have always been inspired by Brooklyn’s general urban din as well as the area’s artists, yet Matt points out, “I don’t think a place can define a person. We simply write songs about us and our life so that’s why where we live comes up.”
 
Indeed, there’s something universal about a song with a beat that grabs you, with a great melody, played by a band that simply loves to play music.  And that, in Williamsburg and way beyond, is the key to the universal appeal of Matt and Kim.

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