I feel like I'm at a hockey game listening to this album.
― Evan, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:51 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
This album rules. \m/ O_O \m/
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 22:57 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://hypem.com/search/ponytail%20beg%20waves/1/
^^fathered your whole style
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:00 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
Uh, it'd, not I'd.
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:01 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
More like the BLOWS sound imo.
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
jk
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:04 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish ppl would've been this hyped on Be Your Own Pet
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Jemina's solo record had some dope songs on it
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually never listened to that
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:14 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
xxpost
Check out "Ecstatic Appeal" & "Nashville Shores," at least
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
ned bringing all the OTM upthread
― chillwave of mutilation (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:15 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
crawwwwllliiinnnggg innnnnnn myyyyyy A/B machinnneeeeeeee
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
crunk is already for white people
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:18 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
It'll bee ok.
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:22 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean highly compressed.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Did you do your best today?
― my baby's got the bans (ksh), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:50 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
sleigh bells - titz
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 13 May 2010 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a good point - musically you can really make a case for either, and i like that. unfortunately, CMJ/stereogum/pitchfork decided this band's narrative within about 5 minutes of their first show.
― miguel, Thursday, 13 May 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
OK I was closest. Said 8.9! Eat it, ksh!
― Evan, Friday, 14 May 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I said 8.5 -- closest x2, I suppose?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 14 May 2010 05:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i had privately predicted 8.8 -- it was a pretty easy score to predict tbh -- first VW record got an 8.8 & the xx got an 8.7 -- this is pretty much the same thing
― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 May 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Honestly, this is maybe the first LP in a while where I wasn't even curious what P4K's score/review would be.
With VW or The xx or whoever, their perspective and take on what the bands were doing was something potentially valuable or interesting, but my experience of Sleigh Bells is so visceral and removed from the kind of critical discussion that surrounds other indie bands I listen to that this is 100% irrelevant maybe? Difficult to articulate the reasons for this exactly.
― Alex in Montreal, Friday, 14 May 2010 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
love this idea from jonathan bradley and his sleigh bellsing of "float on" is pretty much exactly why i can't get that into this album http://screwrocknroll.tumblr.com/post/594017675/modest-mouse-float-on-the-saturday-clubs-slay
― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 May 2010 06:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Except that, well, the xx and VW are both making great music, and Sleigh Bells really don't have the songwriting strength of those two bands.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 14 May 2010 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Is it just me or does Pitchfork shit out 8+ ratings every other day now? Sleigh Bells has an interesting concept and OK execution but Schreiber et al are too smart to actually believe it's album of the year.
― skip, Friday, 14 May 2010 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link