Sleigh Bells: Treats

i.e. "riot rhythm"

i think i'm gonna listen to ponytail's 'ice cream spiritual' now

This album rules. \m/ O_O \m/

Sleigh Bells' Rubies: 10.0 Best New Music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

http://hypem.com/search/ponytail%20beg%20waves/1/

^^fathered your whole style

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!

Uh, it'd, not I'd.

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

Churches should have Rill Rill play instead of real bells imo.

Er, forgot about the 16-666 lyric. Whatever. Bells!

And yes, as stated above, Times New Viking pulls off the blown out sound way way better.

More like the BLOWS sound imo.

jk

TS: Sleigh Bells vs. Broken Bells vs. Howling Bells vs. Belle and Sebastian vs. Belly.

i wish ppl would've been this hyped on Be Your Own Pet

Jemina's solo record had some dope songs on it

i actually never listened to that

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

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.

xxpost

Check out "Ecstatic Appeal" & "Nashville Shores," at least

ned bringing all the OTM upthread

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.

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!

crawwwwllliiinnnggg innnnnnn myyyyyy A/B machinnneeeeeeee

crunk is already for white people

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

i was going to write something very similar to this. not feeling this at all.

It'll bee ok.

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.

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

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.

plus why wouldn't i like crunk for white people?

Vocals reminded me more of High Places.

I'm not really a fan of their highly completely distorted sound. Is this how they sound live as well?

I mean highly compressed.

Did you do your best today?

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.

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

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.

sleigh bells - titz

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.

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.

OK I was closest. Said 8.9! Eat it, ksh!

I said 8.5 -- closest x2, I suppose?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

My prediction for Sleigh Bells was way off by either a 0.2 or the video of the monkey sniffing it's butt.

OK I was closest. Said 8.9! Eat it, ksh!

― Evan, Friday, May 14, 2010 12:11 AM (8 hours ago)

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