Indie 2021 4th Quarter

Lyrics and Music by Holden Laurence

Holden Laurence: Bass / Guitars / Synths / Vocals 
Mark Soriano: Drums

© 2021 Holden Laurence
℗ 2021 Romantic Americana Publishing (ASCAP)

Produced by Holden Laurence
Mixed by Shane Olivo at Shane Olivo Audio 
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music
Artwork by Matthew Childers

Floating, Drifting

Trouble

House

As Far Away As Possible

Steal A Yellow Cab

First Day

Chapstick

What, Me Worry?

Night at the Zoo

produced by Kevin Augunas & Danny Kalb
mixed by Kevin Augunas
mastered by Howie Weinberg
performed by DREAMERS
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This Album Does Not Exist

Wolves (You Got Me)

Lost
Alone
Sadness
Known
But saw you then
Brought lights, we begin

Forever
Heart
Rescued life
Free soul
With your love
By, my, by my side

Shelter love
Through ups & downs
Storms hit
Our hands
Go round, round and round

Peace
With you
Share our dreams
Love won't dim
Nor fall apart at the seams

Forever
Heart
Rescued life
Free soul
With your love
By, my, by my side, my side

Forever
Heart
Rescued life
Free soul
With your love
By, my, by my side

Shelter love
Through ups & downs
Storms hit
Our hands
Go round, round and round

Peace
With you
Share our dreams
Love won't dim
Nor fall apart at the seams

Forever
Heart
Rescued life
Free soul
With your love
By, my, by my side, my side

Face
Sing
In, In my heart
Our love will start
Let's navigate 
And chart

Forever
Heart
Rescued life
Free soul
With your love
By, my, by my side, by my side, by my side

By my side

Forever Heart (Reprise)

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Content

It's A Trip!

Don't You Worry, Honey

Astronaut

Drugstore Heaven

Fast Talk

Violet Street

When Am I Gonna Lose You

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.

Steal A Yellow Cab

Matt and Kim

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