Sleigh Bells: Treats

idk abt any1 else but this seems like a p joyless thing to say to me. abt as conservative as saying we all start buying sheet music instead of dling singles.

― plax (ico), Friday, January 28, 2011 4:19 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

well i think ppl find remarkably joyless ways to dismiss music on non-musical bases so

abt as conservative as saying we all start buying sheet music instead of dling singles.

― plax (ico), Friday, January 28, 2011 1:19 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

no really, writing music/people off cuz they're dressed wrong = the apex of pinched, joyless conservatism, no way around that

lot of joylessness going around

fair cop, haven't had any coffee yet

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^^^ SLAY FUKKIN BELLS!

idk i just this its a small step from this to dismissing everything that isnt "the music" and then its like well why do bands bother dressing certain ways and developing an artwork aesthetic etc. etc. etc.? i mean ppl talk about how a song finally clicked when they saw the music video so theres always more involved than just to the sound of the music itself and to say otherwise strikes me as a kind of pop greenbergianism

yah that's fair and it's something i could deal w/coming from you (bcuz i know you know what youre talking about) but in general if ppl want to go there i'm going to tell them to step their game up yknow?

like, if the post i was responding to was coherent i would not have said that

lol hi-5

:)

in general if ppl want to go there i'm going to tell them to step their game up yknow?

yeah this. "lol u think ur so cool, u wear a leather jacket rock n roll lol," is such a cheap dismissal. not saying that style is irrelevant, or that we should hear the pure music in isolation or w/e.

stepping it up to heaven in 2011

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mZ4x5p0sAZc/S9_wDfihBiI/AAAAAAAAErc/R_-Keabg0lw/s1600/meist2.jpg

we did a remix of this, pretty well-received, many hearts on hypem, plenty blog interest etc. have a listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THS46-kU6FI

320 here http://soundcloud.com/clubclique/sleigh-bells-rill-rill-clique-newtrends-remix

Almost can't believe I bought tickets for them considering I ragged on them so much a year ago - but they definitely grew on me. I've been trying to figure out what steps in evolution were necessary, but really it just came to that one day I found myself liking them way, way more than I used to.

Anyway, saw them last night here in Denver. They definitely know how to give a fucking performance. YouTube videos seem to give off a bit of sloppiness - it didn't even seem remotely apparent here, the songs were so perfect at times I was wondering if the guitar was just sampled as well. I'm not VERY familiar with Treats, but I'm pretty sure they played a newer song... that was just OK. It was faster than anything I've heard from them, but really lacked in a clear melody - the type that defines so much of their other work.

Me and and Alexis made eye-contact so many times I'm kinda confused as to why I'm on ilxor right now and not sleeping in her tour bus. It sorta helps that I was the tallest person in a roomful of excessively exuberant 16 year olds.

If anybody else sees them, could you tell note what they were wearing? The same plaid jacket Derek is seen in in a hell of a lot of promo pictures he wore here. Alexis had on a Sleigh Bells jersey - which also retailed at the front - and made me realize was one of the most ingenious marketing "strategies" I've ever seen. Girls gobbled that shit up, it seemed like everyone had one by show's end.

Played in Neighbours this week too!

I had been thinking this band had completely worn out its welcome with me but I've been listening to Treats today and it really is just that their albums have been getting worse as they've gone along.

yup

I feel like with every iterative release they seem to be saying "this didn't work so well on the previous album, let's take that and make it the cornerstone of the songwriting for the next one!"

first album felt really spontaneous, tons of ideas, seemed to exist with no expectations. second album tightened things up a bunch because they were getting big. third album reveals that the tightening up made them pretty boring.

The best thing about them was always their looseness. Felt like they made more SONGS and fewer tracks with each successive record which is obviously their prerogative but the visceral excitement wasn't just the noise and the redlining it was the beats and the dancier elements?

I mean I guess they were never dance properly or beats driven but onTreats the guitars weren't deployed as guitars but as rhythm and propulsion and a bunch of other stuff. After that they became more traditionally deployed? But it's been a while since I've listened to the newer stuff so I could be wrong.

Basically I guess I'm just saying that when Treats came out it made sense that MIA was signing them to NEET and getting them to produce a track for her and after that it really didn't?

It's kind of a bummer how they started out doing a Thing that felt, if not new, very individual and have spent each album making that Thing more boring

this record started edm t/f

new record is their best since the first. varied, assured, the hooks finally match the bluster. it does sound a little stitched together through email attachments but i'm less bothered by it the more i listen

I am surprised by how clear her voice is and how assured it is, and I am confused that I'm reacting to it as if it was a bad thing.

that was how i felt about half of bitter rivals

"i can't stand you anymore" is such a jam

Revisiting albums from the 2010-2019 as is usual at the end of every decade and I did a 180 turn on this one. I hated it so much when it came out, but nowadays I think the red level aesthetic and their commitment to it is actually impressive, regret not partying to this one back then as I had the chance and even saw them live... I was on the wrong side of history. They never made anything half as good as Treats though.

treats was a v special album

No, Reign of Terror is actually phenomenal. I much prefer it. I'm kind of disturbed how bad these guys got afterwards. I'm not sure what happened. I guess the band couldn't adapt to their own ambitions, which never seemed especially clear.

Come think, surprised Lynch did not feature them in season 3. Maybe not his palette. I viewed all his featured his bands as in some way a force of Americana, which Sleigh Bells obsessively are.

I still play "Run the Heart" a lot. Reign of Terror as an album doesn't work for me but you can pull an A+ EP out of with "Comeback Kid", "Demons", and "Never Say Die"

still sad the entire music ecosystem didn't rearrange itself to sound like treats

With you 100% there.

I could never get into this group, which is weird because I absolutely love Andrew WK and The Go! Team, and this kind of fits in a nexus between those. On the other hand, I could also describe that last Crying album in a similar fashion, and I loved that.

I admittedly resented them upon first contact for reasons beyond me. I think seeing them live zilched whatever concerns floated. The bass was so thick at the concert I was at I ran experiments on my jaw to see whether I could feel it in my teeth.

top ten album of the decade imo

It's way up there. The follow-up is highly underrated too.

I'm kind of sad that tinnitus-pop never really took off as a Thing

I feel like 'Give Yourself A Try' by the 1975 owes something to Sleigh Bells

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?