Indie pop from Boston, by way of Maryland, New York, and LA.

16 MP3 Songs
ROCK: American Underground, POP: Garage Pop



Details:
"The happiest sad songs since Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Amazing writing, even better music. I love this album." - Brian K. Vaughn (author of Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina)

Matthew & Olivia is indie-pop from Boston songwriting tornado Joe Pleiman. We could write a book about Joe, but for this purpose we will keep it to a list of facts.

o Grew up in Kensington, Maryland -the city that banned Santa from the Christmas tree lighting one year.
o Former NYU film school nerd.
o Writes music on occasion for Sesame Street.
o Created the internet favorite "Zelda Song", frequently misattributed to System of a Down.
o Currently works as a sound designer on Adult Swim's Assy McGee, and other animated programs.


Matthew & Olivia portrays two dystopias. The first is of today's "fast forward" lifestyle, where years fly by and loved-ones pass on while life gives us hardly a second to consider what is happening. The second is an imagined post-apocalyptic landscape. The two broken worlds are held together by the album's continuous uncovering of beauty among the ruins.

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