Sleigh Bells
I got my first snippet of Sleigh Bells from a Pitchfork best-of playlist and have been using it as a crutch ever since. I’m pretty sure we can expect great things from these two, an ex-school teacher and a rocker dude.
They are difficult to categorize, using distorted looped beats and abrupt guitar-smashing bridges and almost irritating vocals. Who knew that was a recipe for success? I just haven’t heard this sort of thing before, it doesn’t sound random or experimental, it sounds righteous. A SXSW spotlight gave them a B- grade, I give them a solid A. After purchasing their album on iTunes it’s been high on my scrobbler for two weeks now. We’ve also featured them in our Mayfly & Icecave mixtape, the opening track.
Is this what 2010 sounds like? I think so.
Sleigh Bells | on NPR | on Pitchfork
Yeah, great guitars and beats all around, but I am not totally sold on the vocals. I like the intensity though. Very unpredictable and hard to describe. They make me feel like an old man. I’m all “so this is what the kids like these days?”.