Sleigh Bells: Treats

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

so, there's a track called "Rill Rill" on the record, but no "Ring Ring"

1. "Tell 'Em"
2. "Kids"
3. "Riot Rhythm"
4. "Infinity Guitars"
5. "Run the Heart"
6. "Rachel"
7. "Rill Rill"
8. "Crown On the Ground"
9. "Straight A's"
10. "A/B Machines"
11. "Treats"

(http://altmusic.about.com/b/2010/04/29/sleigh-bells-unveil-treats-track-list-cover-art.htm)

also feel like there is a certain inherent disssonance in chillwave, left over from its spiritual forefathers of like ariel pink, panda bear, that these guys are just more explicit abt.

might be clearance issues w/ the "ring ring" sample

hopefully--that song just does not really work

i feel like the spiritual forefathers of sleigh bells are marnie stern & ponytail, and also like... run dmc & salt n pepa

eh maybe, theres no real point having this argument

really, what is the point of anything

I finally listened to like five secs of ring ring and lolllllllllllllllllllllll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY_0QReTPkc

^ oh man, i love that jam so much. used to be on MTV all the time in, like, 98

dude you should check out this remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUKCQfLY7nQ

looooool