Sleigh Bells: Treats

Hints of Marnie Stern too.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

This album is a treat, am I right?

u r right

...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

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.

It gives me what I think must be the "aural fatigue" I always hear about that is supposedly increased by contemporary sound engineering.

"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

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

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.

U live in Flatbush! Are you a chassid?

Wouldn't that be more Boro Park?

there's a big charedi community in flatbush too, but yeah, the bigger one is boro park.

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...

entire first run of vinyls is gonna be picture disc!

http://www.insound.com/noteworthy/images/sleighbellspicdisc.jpg

"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"

sounds great, actually, afternoon plans now set

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.

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.

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.)

like the pitchfork interview a lot -- they seem like really cool ppl, wish i dug their records more

yeah their interactions in that interview were funny.

Masonic Boom would like this if she's around.

― 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.

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.

Infinity Guitars is kicking my ass this morning. The neighbors downstairs hate that I love this album so loudly.

I really love the tracks on this where they sound like a dance version of Lush

i liked this briefly and then got annoyed.

i like this album teats

still like this

I think the thing I like the most about this is the relentless onslaught aspect of it (also the shoegaze vocals)

it is very much "Ting Tings + funhouse mirror" but there are worse ideas for a band

it is good walking-to-work music

OTM, it's really good first thing in the morning if you're still feeling slightly dopey.

I really love the tracks on this where they sound like a dance version of Lush

Yup.

Oh, and "Rachel" sounds like Lush remixed by 2 Unlimited.

― DavidM, Thursday, 27 May 2010 10:44 (4 months ago) Bookmark

Still got love for this LP.

I like the album because it's so short I can practically listen to it twice on my morning commute. I'm still enjoying it obviously.

"You take a heart I can take out you"

yeah it is just kinda relentless & energetic & doesn't let up, total playground vibe. But like the cool big sister you always wish you'd had who comes in the playground and if any big boys are bothering you she beats them up for you.

Singles Jukebox reviewed "Infinity Guitars". Good discussion in the comments about what age group Alexis is targeting: adolescent or pre-. (Well, I thought it was interesting, but I was participating.) Love the album; Alexis is pretty hot in the video.

i liked this briefly and then got annoyed.

― thebingo2010 (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 17:38 (3 days ago) Bookmark

OTM. Like Salem, the initial ear-tingle gets spread very thin on repeated listenings.

is it just me or is "Infinity Guitars" a totally baffling single choice?

i've heard two versions of it -- there's one on youtube that doesn't have the big bass freakout in the second half.

... I kind of don't see the point of the song without the big bass freakout at the end!

Maybe I'm just being a big shoegazy blouse but I would have picked "Run the Heart" as the next single (well actually I would have picked "Rachel" so yes I am totally being a big shoegazy blouse because that song would have been just as weird a choice as "Infinity Guitars", if for completely different reasons).

I also say this because I'm assuming "Rill Rill" was at least put out as a promo track.

Treats is nice if you feel like listening to both Katy Perry and Gojira, and you don't want to have to choose.

several weeks of exposure to this album is making more used to the idea of "Infinity Guitars" as a single

still totally infatuated with "Run the Heart" and "Rachel" tho

Has anyone else got bored of this record yet?

nope! still love it

haven't played it terribly often, but i pulled it out today for a spin and it still intrigues

I like it more now than I did early on.

i dont listen to it these days but i know id still like it if i did

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