That said, I give you this again:
http://rekkerd.org/img/200912/PLP_Sleigh_Bells.jpg
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i really want to like this cuz i dig their aesthetic in theory, but i can't get into the album -- just don't think there are great 'songs' here, but maybe i'm being too rockist or something -- i guess ppl who dig this album would say that that doesn't really matter? or maybe that it runs counter to what they're trying to do? -- either way there are parts of songs that i dig but it all falls rather flat to me -- also still have major problems with the productions & don't really see how it's a selling point at all
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
rill rill/ring ring is a masterpiece tho
i really want to like this cuz i dig their aesthetic in theory
Me too. Times New Viking pull this thing off a lot better -- distorted/catchy as fuck, in tandem.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't really mean the lo fi thing -- more of like, dude shredding on guitar/drum machine/chick chanting all over the place
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
like, "crown on the ground" would be away better if it was whistle-clean
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess ppl who dig this album would say that that doesn't really matter?
erm, no, there are def great songs here
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't really see what the distortion at all adds to these songs
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like I'm at a hockey game listening to this album.
― Evan, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i like the ones that sound like m.i.a. the best
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i.e. "riot rhythm"
i think i'm gonna listen to ponytail's 'ice cream spiritual' now
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
This album rules. \m/ O_O \m/
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Sleigh Bells' Rubies: 10.0 Best New Music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Screw this band. I'm going to see the Drive-by Truckers on Thursday. I'm a rockist in my old age now. No patience for this crap. Or maybe I just can't the way the singer performs. And the guitar is dumb.
― Benjamin-, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://hypem.com/search/ponytail%20beg%20waves/1/
^^fathered your whole style
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess my monitor is an "A" machine, 'cause it's on a table right now, but if I shoved it in a drawer, then I'd be a B machine. Dope!
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Uh, it'd, not I'd.
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
It's like they've written a load of catchy 10-second hooks, but then fail to write songs around them all.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:40 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark
i kind of like this
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Churches should have Rill Rill play instead of real bells imo.
Er, forgot about the 16-666 lyric. Whatever. Bells!
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
And yes, as stated above, Times New Viking pulls off the blown out sound way way better.
― Benjamin-, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
More like the BLOWS sound imo.
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
jk
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
TS: Sleigh Bells vs. Broken Bells vs. Howling Bells vs. Belle and Sebastian vs. Belly.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i wish ppl would've been this hyped on Be Your Own Pet
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Jemina's solo record had some dope songs on it
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i actually never listened to that
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
listened to this today (npr lol) and it sounded like ratatat fronted w/vocals by a white chick doing MIA impressions?? at least that was my initial, off the cuff impression
― rapping about space and shit, floatin’ around in an orgy of screen savers (gbx), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I can relate to the erzats 'Ting Tings' vibe some of you are getting from them. I'm personally getting increasingly tired of the current lo-fi trend in indie rock... I get they are at least not using it to muffle underwritten songs and this might just be my problem with them; the production is not helping distract us from a bad song but from a potentially good one.
Then again, a song like 'Rill Rill' would probably sound twee if you tear down all the red levels.
― Moka, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost
Check out "Ecstatic Appeal" & "Nashville Shores," at least
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
ned bringing all the OTM upthread
― chillwave of mutilation (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I want to reiterate: God, they're terrible. Iconoclasm, OK maybe, but I still reserve the right to an opinion. I usually agree with most hype (i.e., Animal Collective was an incredible find for me upon first hearing) but this stuff is terrible.... it reminds me of Linkin Park gone indie, or something like that.
― kelpolaris, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, terrible comparison. The boom-boom-clap-clap-guitar-guitar-girl-girl song structure just isn't doing it for me. It sounds like crunk for white people.
Linkin Crunk!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
crawwwwllliiinnnggg innnnnnn myyyyyy A/B machinnneeeeeeee
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
crunk is already for white people
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i was going to write something very similar to this. not feeling this at all.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
It'll bee ok.
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
does this count as lo-fi though, isn't he just using a tonne of some specific type of distortion? recordings seem very quality to me, despite the music being like, loud and crazy.
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, terrible comparison. The boom-boom-clap-clap-guitar-guitar-girl-girl song structure just isn't doing it for me. It sounds like crunk for white people.― kelpolaris
― kelpolaris
weird that this is so universally received as "indie" rather than pop. like this is the sound of someone bringing confrontational tones & energy to staid indie, rather than bringing indie tones & aesthetics (everygirl vocals, shitgaze sonics) to pop. maybe that's splitting hairs.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
plus why wouldn't i like crunk for white people?
Vocals reminded me more of High Places.
― Evan, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not really a fan of their highly completely distorted sound. Is this how they sound live as well?
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean highly compressed.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Did you do your best today?
― my baby's got the bans (ksh), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I keep reading the title as "Teats." Anyway, I'd love for someone to do one of those audio spectrum graphics things to show how hot/in the red/compressed this thing is. It's permanently set on stun.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp not so much. i think they put the tracks on in the background and then play/sing over it, so the compressed/distorted sound is still there but not so prominent.
Someone might correct me about this though, it was crazy up front at the show last night. she's amazing on stage and ended by jumping out into the crowd before coming back to sing Rill Rill solo
― nick (killah priest), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I really like "Crown on the Ground," but after listening to the full-length I am done with this band. They are monotonous and after a while get very boring. I like the idea in theory, but when executed, Sleigh Bells are a no go.
― mattotheman, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
sleigh bells - titz
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 13 May 2010 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link