Music Friday: Matt & Kim – Daylight (the Barcardi Mojito Ad)
A week or so ago I saw this weird, and yet mesmerizing, commercial with a guy walking through parties seemingly through different generations. Through each scene this very cool raw drum line, catchy piano, and vocal track persisted, somehow seemingly to fit into each generation – I suppose I could say timeless. I wasn’t really paying attention, and so didn’t know what the ad was for, and didn’t particularly remember the music afterwards.
A few days ago I caught the ad again. This time my girlfriend commented that the guy in the commercial was “cute” (there’s no accounting for taste ;) ), but I was rocking out yet again to the song. Ended up being a Barcardi Mojito commerical, and I decided to look it up.
The track in the video is Daylight from Matt & Kim, a duo from Brooklyn, NY. Matt is a vocalist and keyboardist, and Kim vocalist and drummer, and you can find more bio details in their Wikipedia entry. Also, have to give them credit for not only having a blog on their main site, but embracing the web as it is and kicking it with Flickr.
Not only is Daylight a great song, but I’ve been bringing back my early Nintendo days with Cinders, in which the keyboards remind me of a sped up puzzle arcade game of some sort, but again with Kim’s catchy drum lines.
So for this Music Friday, check out Matt & Kim.
