Matt & Kim - Grand (2009)

Genre : Indie,Rock
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Tracklist

1. Daylight
2. Cutdown
3. Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare
4. Spare Change
5. I Wanna
6. Lessons Learned
7. Don't Slow Down
8. Turn This Boat Around
9. Cinders
10. I'll Take Us Home
11. Daylight Outro

Today is January 20th 2009. I wake up to the television and the inauguration of Barack Obama. Something that has given me at least some bit of hope that the government of this country might ever start changing for the better, even a little bit. To start to deserve the right to be the government of all the rad people i've met in all the rad scenes in every city here in the United States.

And then, as i mentioned, it's January 20th 2009. This is also the day Kim and I's album, Grand, is released. You know how it is said, "the most difficult things you work on are the most rewarding in the end?" Well making this album was more than difficult to make, but i am more then proud of it in the end. Beginning 2007 with playing a keyboard in a winter coat and cut off gloves, sitting in a Vermont bedroom with no heat in December. Ending in 2008, mixing wearing only underwear, sweating at 5 am in a Brooklyn apartment with no air conditioning, after staying up all night in August.

And by no means am i saying all the hard work led to every lyric being sang in perfect pitch, or every drum hit being played in perfect time. The hard work led to make an album that is completely us (if that makes any sense.) I love every beat, and every melody and everything in between. So today, January 20th 2009, for me, is one hell of a day.