I PREDICT AN 8.8 BNM
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/06/leaked_mia_brings_the_noise_fo.html
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Come on it might as well be 'so-so' if it's weaker than Arular or Kala.
mods, please replace the number score in my prior post with whatever rating '/\/\ /\ Y /\' actually gets from p4k.
then please delete this post. thanks.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
that link I posted was the saddest thing I read all week :(
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
actually definitely not...it's just I'm such a believer in her first two albums, and I'm not looking forward to having to defend her when all this backlash to her music comes in.
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:31 (Yesterday) Bookmark
7.2
― tres vorbei Bestie (micarl), Monday, 21 June 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
ehhh perpetua can be pretty off. plus he is "reviewing" the crap-quality leak from last week, which seems weird.
― Simon H., Monday, 21 June 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Pfork went over the goddamn top calling every chillwave song "summer music" are we gonna do this every year now?
― ke$ha in the rye (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, June 20, 2010 3:52 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Who are these people who have "summer songs." I listen to the same music YEAR ROUND. Just imagining some clown "summering it up" on his porch listening to sleigh bells and drinking a corona in wayfarers makes me want to puke
― ke$ha in the rye (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, June 20, 2010 3:54 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
what the fuck dude
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 21 June 2010 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean are people no longer entitled to recognize qualities in music, and listen to whatever music they want when they most feel like it? are you just going to be vomiting regardless? these are the questions that i am pondering
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 21 June 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
also it doesn't mean they don't listen to that shit year round, it's just the finer qualities of some songs are magnified when married to sun and heat and rolled down windows. stuff that's particularly conducive to being loud and outside.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Monday, 21 June 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i don't drive and even when i did, i put on the air conditioner
― ke$ha in the rye (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, June 20, 2010 5:55 PM (Yesterday)
http://www.lifeinmyears.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/snob1.jpg
― Evan, Monday, 21 June 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"there is no such thing as summer music" is the weirdest opinion for a thinks-about-music dude to have, like to the point of wondering whether you are high or something
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 21 June 2010 04:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i do not mean to pile on whiney but contexts conducive to making music even more awesome are totally worth thinking about all the time.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Monday, 21 June 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
+ the idea that Pitchfork just thought of this last year is like +10 wtf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWXcjYNZais
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 21 June 2010 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
can i say whiney's horror at "summer song" enthusiasts may be due to overexposure to brooklyn hipsterdom or would that be a low blow like saying someone's respect for all successful songwriters may be due to them being a songwriter
― da croupier, Monday, 21 June 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"pick that scab, counselor"
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 21 June 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
have you ever listened to sleigh bells ON WEED??--the daily show
― gay sauna manthems (LOLK), Monday, 21 June 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
that's from half-baked, doofus
― ke$ha in the rye (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 21 June 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
In one way, this band do sound like nothing else around at the moment. On the other, they represent the culmination of whatever continuum includes Go Team, Crystal Castles, MIA, chillwave, Ariel Pink, Dirty Projectors, My Toys Like Me, Gang Gang Dance etc - anyone maverickly fusing obstrusive rock with pop and/or contemporary r'n'b and/or cheerleader-style vocals. It was only a matter of time till a band like Sleigh Bells would pop up. A lot of opinions here seem to concentrate on the lo-fi/noise production aspect as if this is a brand new thing, but it's not as though overdriven pop hasn't been done many times before - I don't see why it comes as much of a shock (even offence) to so many people. The noise is solid, dry and crunchy and gives a lot of mid-range energy and sparkle to the tracks, which wouldn't be as exciting without it.
Still, I like it, but strictly in small doses. If anything the sonic barrage and lack of bass definitely renders listener fatigue, and trying to get to the end of Treats and what starts as a fairly novel listening experience becomes tiring after five or six songs. Imagine listening to "Alice Practice" 11 times in a row - you just wouldn't want to. If I'm to really give "classic" status to a record, it's got to flow and move and surprise from track to track. As such most of the songs here are about as powerful and intricate as each other - the odd ballad wouldn't hurt right? (lol)
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Hints of Marnie Stern too.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
The small doses thing is very true for me. Whenever they come up on shuffle I like what I hear, but when I try to play the album straight through its just too much sound barrage and I end up tuning out.
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
What are the chances this "indie dates r'n'b" thing that's been going on this last six months going to become a proper "thing" - will the two styles get married and create a proper genre, apropos 80s post-punk's bringing together of punk and disco?
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the odd ballad wouldn't hurt right? (lol)
OTM. Ring Ring/Rill Rill is the closest thing they have to a slow song, and it's one of the best things on the record. So that's encouraging.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
35 minute live show in DC. I guess that's about all they have...
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/07/in_concert_sleigh_bells_at_roc.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
This is the first time I've heard a record that I simultaneously think is really good and feel a little too old to like.
― surfer blood for oil (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
This album is a treat, am I right?
― endless dougie (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
u r right
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
...but when I try to play the album straight through its just too much sound barrage and I end up tuning out.― sofatruck, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 6:06 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark
― sofatruck, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 6:06 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
hm.. I would say it works as a whole. It is definitely one big burst of energy, but it is only 30 mins so it is manageable. You just have to be ready for it I guess.Either way, the songs are all gems.
― juicebox, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
It gives me what I think must be the "aural fatigue" I always hear about that is supposedly increased by contemporary sound engineering.
― surfer blood for oil (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
"Who are these people who have "summer songs." I listen to the same music YEAR ROUND. Just imagining some clown "summering it up" on his porch listening to sleigh bells and drinking a corona in wayfarers makes me want to puke"
sleigh bells fans can't afford porches
― nobody's daughter (kiss out the jams), Thursday, 8 July 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
had my iphone on random shuffle this afternoon and a Sleigh Bells song I wasn't that familiar with came on and it was totally rocking. i liked the album as a whole, but otm to whoever said it is brilliant in small doses
― Mordy, Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Oddly, this sounds surprisingly not out-of-place when I play it loud on my jeep while driving around Flatbush. I mean, you could quibble about some fine details, but the music doesn't sound *that* unlike a lot of the ultra-distorted whatever the hell it is that I hear all the time, and the vocals would be recognizable to most people as "good" vocals. I suspect that it'd be considered a whole lot more normal than, say, Cheap Trick, at least in my neighborhood.
― dlp9001, Friday, 9 July 2010 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
U live in Flatbush! Are you a chassid?
― Mordy, Friday, 9 July 2010 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Wouldn't that be more Boro Park?
― dlp9001, Friday, 9 July 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a big charedi community in flatbush too, but yeah, the bigger one is boro park.
― Mordy, Friday, 9 July 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, where I am I think of it as more Haitian/Trinidad/etc. Sleigh Bells really don't stick out as much as one might think...
― dlp9001, Friday, 9 July 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
entire first run of vinyls is gonna be picture disc!
http://www.insound.com/noteworthy/images/sleighbellspicdisc.jpg
― rum, so-damn-mainey, and the lash (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 9 July 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds great, actually, afternoon plans now set
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 9 July 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
people hating on this should have their american citizenship revoked. riffs! beats!
though i halfway expect to hear zach de la rocha. for some reason.
― goole, Saturday, 10 July 2010 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
On the other, they represent the culmination of whatever continuum includes Go Team, Crystal Castles, MIA, chillwave, Ariel Pink, Dirty Projectors, My Toys Like Me, Gang Gang Dance
What the "completely non-existant continuum of disparate and unrelated acts randomly thrown together"? Please for the love of god stop trying to do these Reynolds-lite 'grand historical-cultural sweep' posts, it's getting painful.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 10 July 2010 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
An old person writes: what continuum was Brassy in?
(I like Sleigh Bells. Let's not talk about whether I have a pile of Brassy 7"s at the back of the wardrobe.)
― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 10 July 2010 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
like the pitchfork interview a lot -- they seem like really cool ppl, wish i dug their records more
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah their interactions in that interview were funny.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Masonic Boom would like this if she's around.― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 20 June 2010 15:36 (1 month ago) Bookmark
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 20 June 2010 15:36 (1 month ago) Bookmark
Oh my god you are so utterly shamefully correct.
It's kind of like some Sassy covergirl singing over the top of Justice. (That's where I've heard that super saturated super distorted rip the bass out of everything and just replace it with super compressed distortion sound before)
They do make me want to jump around like Brassy or Le Tigre to be honest. Wanna make a mixtape that segues this between My Metrocard and Hot Topic (Is The Way That We Rock) with some Marnie Stern to round it out. I eat this stuff up with a damn SPOON.
― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
If someone had told me to listen to this 4 months ago, mind you, I would have told them to fuck off.
It really is best to let the initial hype pass you by sometimes.
Wish I could get this in pill form, for really bad cases of PMT.
― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Infinity Guitars is kicking my ass this morning. The neighbors downstairs hate that I love this album so loudly.
― fuck ya law! (Spinspin Sugah), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I really love the tracks on this where they sound like a dance version of Lush
― MC Tramp Stamp (HI DERE), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i liked this briefly and then got annoyed.
― thebingo2010 (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link