i dont know. frankly im pretty full of shit, myself
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
lol best answer possible
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
(not that i think you're full of shit, just funny)
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Is "Kids" the new version of "Crown on the Ground"?
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh no wait Crown comes later
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Kids is the new version of Beach Girls, but takes away all the nice seagull noises :( and tones it down somewhat? Not sure what they did to it, but it's the only demo that isn't IMPROVED by the album.
― Alex in Montreal, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
the bursting/scintillating drums tire a bit by the end of the album. the last track could definitely do without them, at least.
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
this record rules, but all i want to listen to right now is Paramore. don't sleep on their last record, everyone! it rules
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
did they remaster crown at all? haven't listened to the demo in awhile but it still feels pretty demo-y
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Why would anyone put their crown in the ground? If I had one I'd be sporting it and whacking people on the forehead with my sceptre.
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I realise that's kind of the point. It just sounds unprofessional as opposed to 'professionally distorted'
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Um, yeah, so this is fucking hot imo.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://rekkerd.org/img/200912/PLP_Sleigh_Bells.jpg
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
IRL LOL
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Mr. Sleigh Moose would like to be incorporated into ksh's review of this album.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
On "Infinity Guitars" Alexis Krauss sounds like Andrea Zollo from Pretty Girls Make Graves.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay maybe I was too quick to dismiss this, it isn't bad.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
So how many reviews are going to mention that this is a relatively short record (little over 30 minutes)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Wrt the Paste review, "You either buy the Brookyln duo’s central conceit or you don’t: bombastic synth-rock for bombast’s sake, with mixing cranked so high your speakers sound like they’re about to combust," I heard this description a lot when listening to the demos ('speakers sound like they're about to combust') but doesn't actually sound right on this album. The distortion is actually much cleaner and easier to pick out -- it's no longer just amorphous static.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I think that is exactly why I like this album more than the demos I listened to, the distortion isn't really so muddy and overwhelming. I feel like its used to much greater effect on these tracks.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
lol these guys kinda remind me of MCR.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG the last 35 seconds of "Infinity Guitars"!!!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
paste is the absolute worst music magazine in the world
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
"Rill Rill" is fantastic.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
The album sounds like the soundtrack of a Vin Diesel action vehicle as directed by Sophia Coppola.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
paste is the absolute worst music magazine in the world― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:13 PM (3 minutes ago)
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:13 PM (3 minutes ago)
no one cares about Paste iirc, but publishing a challopsy article with the title "Is Indie Dead?" is a really easy way to increase page views and, consequently, ad revenue, b/c there's a segment of people out there who like to blog/tweet/tumblr about stuff like this― kshighway (ksh), Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:47 AM (2 months ago)
― kshighway (ksh), Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:47 AM (2 months ago)
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
thats what im saying jon that ending is incredible and even better if youve listened to the demo enough times that you sort of take the last 30 seconds for granted
a few xps
― nick (killah priest), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
A/B Machines sounds a bit weaker than the demo I think, but other than that: YES.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, maybe it's just the album cover, but I keep thinking of "Nevermind" while I listen to it.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
part of the reason i like this is bc i keep thinking of a LOT of things while i listen to it. it's not as pigeon-holed as it could have easily been.
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Really glad I gave this a chance. I'm having a hard time remembering the last time when hearing "polished" versions of demos I pretty much hated managed to change my mind.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a fun little album
― INGMAR BIRDMAN CÅSH MONEY (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
have a heart, have a heart
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
have a heart
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
HAVE A HEART HAVE A HEART HAVE A HEART HAVE A HEART
This's gonna chase me for the rest of the week
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
sampled ur heart
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
It's kind of crazy. If someone came up to me and thrust a heart at me and was all HAVE A HEART HAVE A HEART, I'd be pretty O_O
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i would be pretty freaked out; who's heart is this dude!
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
a blogger's
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
skeptical...
― goole, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought ratatat were kind of bullshit too.
― goole, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
even better if youve listened to the demo enough times that you sort of take the last 30 seconds for granted
OTM. Listened to the album three or four times since last night and it still catches me by surprise!
― Alex in Montreal, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
they were pretty bad
― dmr, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
The might Maura weighs in: http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/sleigh-bells-treats
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Uh, mighty.
That's an excellent review but one where I agree with the larger thesis at the end than the worth of the album used to illustrate the point!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
ned that is a confusing sentence
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Written in a rush. :-D
Actually the key points appear at the start and the end:
One of the things that I bemoaned about "indie" for so long was its overly mannered nature — bands that would garner accolades from critics seemed to me like music made for droning one's life away in a vaguely creative cubicle farm, full of beautiful, correctly executed moments that had zero resonance except to serve as placeholders until the next batch of aesthetes came along. Sleigh Bells feels like it was created as a direct protest against this type of music — the songs that spill out of Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss are vital and fun, maxing speakers' volume in a bone-shaking way that can't help but transfer outward to the rest of one's person. ...But for the most part, the album is loud, and aggressive, and fun. When I talk to people about Sleigh Bells, it's interesting to see what points of comparison come up: Krauss' cheery voice lends comparisons to pop; the blown-out sonics cause people to reach back to '90s techno. While perusing Twitter earlier I saw comparisons to Ludacris, Dirty Projectors, and T. Rex. Treats is probably going to be a very polarizing record, but after an era where inoffensive blandness ruled the roost, I do not think that's a bad thing at all.
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But for the most part, the album is loud, and aggressive, and fun. When I talk to people about Sleigh Bells, it's interesting to see what points of comparison come up: Krauss' cheery voice lends comparisons to pop; the blown-out sonics cause people to reach back to '90s techno. While perusing Twitter earlier I saw comparisons to Ludacris, Dirty Projectors, and T. Rex. Treats is probably going to be a very polarizing record, but after an era where inoffensive blandness ruled the roost, I do not think that's a bad thing at all.
In both these parts Maura's larger point completely matches with my point of view -- 'indie' as such contains a vast drab world of dullardry that squashes my brain, nice to have something to kick against that. Where we differ is that I don't think this is the album for it -- but not in a sense of 'ugh, this is horrible,' more like 'man, SO close, but they're not working for me somehow.'
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link