Sleigh Bells: Treats

Could be part of it, but there's also something forced here that, again, I can't put my finger on. It's like it comes close to working but because it doesn't gets really irritating.

at least in the indie world, this record is gonna be huge

Alexis Krauss' former group RubyBlue - girl group pop music circa 2002. Can we mash this up with Crown on the Ground or something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIvZ5LLFlXU

Despite the awful lyrics, I sort of like that more than Sleigh Bells in a sort of female fountains of wayne way

sort of.

Fans, talk to me. I don't hate it, but it's like elevator music in the sense that it's so negligible to me.

I don't want to talk to you.

This just seems like a logical extension from what Sick Mouthy has been talking about for ages...except in the wrong direction. I really hope this fetishization of digital distortion and ultra-compression doesn't really stick around. Its kinda the same thing with that Dom band...kinda. I think that once people realize this band sucks live, they will hopefully dwindle away.

That Ruby Blue song above puts their live show into perspective for me. I was wondering why she was so lame on stage.

I do like the heavy bass and noise elements to this band. And other than my problems with the vocals, I just wish there was more going on with the guitar. I kept waiting for the dude to do something more–I don't know, a solo, maybe just a fill of some kind? The best part of this band's live show is what comes out of the iPod they've hooked up to the PA.

I've always been really 'pro' this band, like most people, but was taken aback when Perpetua called them "bold" and suggested that other bands "leave their timidity behind in the 00s."

At first I chalked up my allergic reaction to the backhanded belittling of 'bands who aren't Sleigh Bells', but then I read this thread and can better put my reservations into words... To crush a recording like this is a beautiful sound, but it symbolizes one thing alone: expansionism. This beat bangs harder than yours, my amps are louder than yours... I can totally get behind it, this is one fantastic band, but "big" and "loud" don't necessarily mean "bold" to me. I want to hear dozens of records from Sleigh Bells but I hope this won't set a precedent for the next five years of pop music.

holy interlocking Death Stars

i don't think Sleigh Bells will set the precedent for anything, except for maybe a handful of younger bands who they might influence

i'm sure part of their boldness can be attributed to volume & "beat[s] bang[ing] harder than yours," but i think another part can be attributed to how singular this sounds. in the context of indie at least, something like "Tell 'Em" reminds me of last year's Dirty Projectors record, not because it sounds similar, but because what the hell else sounds like this today? not much, i think, at least in the indie world

i think a lot of the "boldness" argument can be attributed to both the volume and the bareness of the songs -- i'm not surprised that perpetua would say something like that considering how much disdain he has for the vivian girls -- there's a confidence in sleigh bells that can serve as a direct antithesis to lo-fi/reverby indie rock & chillwave if you feel like those bands/artists use production aesthetics to muffle underwritten songs

i'm not a fan of lo-fi/chillwave myself but i'm not sure i want to see sleigh bells setting trends either

i think you're mostly OTM, but i wouldn't mind a little more confidence in my indie

i mean, the "confidence" thing is really a slippery slope because it's really a borderline conspiracy theory -- there are tons of indie bands who aren't doing lo-fi/chillwave who don't sound like sleigh bells/don't produce their music like sleigh bells

it's weird tho--sleigh bells isn't this 100% kicking your ass thing--yeah the production is ridic but she still has a really delicate and girly voice. i think that's the contrast they're working with and a "sleigh bells vs chillwave" narrative makes less sense to me

uh except yall r deaf they *are* a chillwave band?

What is this chillwave of which you speak

ok plax, why are they a chillwave band

yeah i don't see that

neither does plaxico

classic sample+lo-fi laptop production "post Ariel Pink" indie. like i dunno how specific the def. of chillwave is that something that incorporates all the elements would be set up as in like opposition to the rest of it. I mean, i feel like this straight up sampling thing still has enough of a novelty factor attached to it in the contxt of Modern Indie that it functions pretty well as a classificatory signifier. also, shit sounds like an aggro washed out.

i feel like chillwave = music you fall asleep to, and sleigh bells is certainly not that

obv its the opposite end of the continuum from like Julian Lynch for eg but i mean

i mean u r deaf if sleigh bells is "chillwave" because they use samples and laptops?

i do think they are pretty lol in a "hey i can't find any dece rips of ur tracks" "no that is our sound" way

sayin they use samples in a lo-fi indie way, that is simple loop, semi-recognisable (the dreams of the passt) w. melody sung on top.

the guy at Sam's club that gives out samples probably has a laptop at home too, so he's also chillwave

BIG LAUGHS aka the joketeller over here

tape store played a song for me off this today and all i could say was "stunning"

they sound like Atari Teenage Riot doing soulless pop

its not like im saying they use guitars so they are rock, they use an instrument in a way that is contiguous w. standard chillwave practice to make a sound that is basically like an slightly bitcrushed vers. of same

i dunno the songs i've heard have way more slammin beats and distorted guitars than some chillwave bullshit but whatev

i think they violate the central tenant of chillwave, which would be "chill"

if glo fi had stuck none of u would b arguing w. me except for ksh

yeah i mean plax you're hearing them structurally not viscerally which is fine i guess but wouldn't be my go-to move in this particular discussion

btw why have i never heard of these ppl before? is this one of those things that i've slept on but rly their whole catalog is great or something?

they are new

oh

don't have an album out yet

i dig this song tho fwiw -- album should be fun, i won't be mad if it's a big indie album this year

ha ramz, their catalog = 3 songs

scared to listen on headphones tho

omg i did this morning! loved it!

i listen to crown on the ground on phones, it's no big thing

"this is sonic the hedgehog on acid in an indie band, i can't not be happy hearing this... seriously ... this could get me dancing at a funeral"

the one i heard is "tell em"

it really grabbed ahold of me!

have listened to wolf eyes on headphones, but i was pretty depressed then.

did these guys have a christmas song out at one point or am i making that shit up

plaxico, i get what you were arguing for above, but chillwave has certain vibe it's going for that's absent from Sleigh Bells . . . so what J0rdan said above, basically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q77Zu75JtY

Excited to hear this - sounding better than they have in YEARS
https://sleighbells.bandcamp.com/album/texis

haven't kept up with them for a while but that song sounds great

It's out - seems quite low key thus far, like minimal maximalism. Beats are more EDM than the digital Bonham stomp they once had, and the guitars are equal parts glass and shred. Preview track "Locust Laced" is the most fired-up, but I'm optimistic it's all gonna grow on me.

almost an EDM Chromatics vibe interrupted by TRVE SHRED GVITARS

ooh "True Seekers" is a sweeping pop ballad with very specific vibes, Berlin maybe?