Welcome to your opportunity to sound like you know what the fuck you are talking about when it comes to THE NEXT BIG THING: You need to listen to Sleigh Bells, and you need to do it NOW.
Welcome to your opportunity to sound like you know what the fuck you are talking about when it comes to THE NEXT BIG THING: You need to listen to Sleigh Bells, and you need to do it NOW.
Listen to “Crown on the Ground” (my #1 favorite song right now — I defy you to dislike it), and fall in speaker-punishing LOVE. Your gonna think that your equalizer is jacked; do not adjust a thing. Just let the fuzzy speaker-blown dancefest rock your braincave. TRUST ME.
In the 2 weeks since I first heard Sleigh Bells, the band has gone BIGTIMES. It’s one of the fastest buzz to blowups I’ve witnessed in a while. I think they have approximately seven songs to their name and have only performed 11 shows TOTAL, but Brooklyn musicz is KILLING IT with this duo. Plus Alexis is a crazy hot front-chick stomping around in sparkle leggings. I saw them live at The Studio at Webster Hall (show #10) and was informed by a friend who’d know that no less than 10 A&R music peeps were there — and they were just the opening act. HYPE MACHINE IN ACTION! But completely well-deserved. Can’t wait to see what happens.
My advice to you? Download this shit while you can still be the cool kid who plays this casually at a party like, ”Oh wow, you haven’t heard this yet? AWWWWKWARRRDDDD.”
sounds like ARE Weapons fronted by a chick
Oh yeah. I get it. Satire.
You have really shitty taste in music.
cool! they should totally play the christmas show at the ikea! brooklyn’s rad huh!
have you give up on Cerebral Ballzy now?
Do you dudes not realize that for every person who says “Oh, a SBTV music recommendation! I’ll check them out!”, there are another 5 people who see this post and make a mental note to never listen to a band called “Sleigh Bells” for as long as they live?
There are too many “writers” contributing “content” to this blog now.
whatever happened to Spalding Rockwell? I liked them
wow, this “band” kinda sucks. i mean it’d be fun if i was at one of their shows dancing with some hot chick and i was really drunk but, eh…
Can we please stop w/ the boring music + muffled shitty sound = great band?
I liked these guys better when they were called the Go! Team
talk talk
white lightning, this band rules. thanks for the recommendation. expect a weird e-mail about your musical taste
pass
I’m gonna front it’s catchy and was “liked” a week ago.
ON IT
Pretty sick, but their live show needs WAY more energy. This whole canned beat and extra tracks just blows.
this is old news.
another laptop band. rock and roll!
Power chords and hot chicks. less suck and more TITS!
Why do JAPs have such a wide-on for any chubby girl who isn’t completely awful?
never trust a band with simple music and a hot chick singer. for fapping only
now imagine if the singer looked like oprah winfrey.
Oh yeah papi, this ended up being mad embarrassing. That fat chick is an accountant with a gunt now.
Yeah, she’s a babe.
white lightings my girl-girl!
Unbearable. Just another reason why chicks are < men.
this music is not very good is what i was thinking when i was listening to this music
Bonde do Rolê circa 2006.
is it supposed to sound like that?
Their drummer is incredible. Very mathematical.
Sounds like the hardstep that junglists were making about 10 years ago but slower (duh), more boring, and with shitty vocals.
i love terrible music
that sound is called “clipping”
I’m gettting really really fucking sick of bands who purposely make their music sound like shit. It’s 2009. You can have a decent recording setup for NOTHING. Why the fuck would you want to push the levels so far up into the red like that. That’s for when you’re yelling into a tape recorder. Worst trend of the year. Lofi = shit. Actually nix that, lofi don’t shitty is shit. Didn’t any of you fuckers ever hear of SOFT CLIPPING AT LEAST.
FUCK.
I don’t get it.
I live in TORONTO and my roommate told me about this band weeks ago. Once shit gets to Toronto it’s over.
wasn’t gonna bother… til the first comment compared it to ARE w/ a chick. then my boner broke the keyboard shelf.
Hawd Gangsta Rappa MCs wid Gatz is good lofi.
I think they dis-band-ed a long time ago though.
fuck yeah, finally I can listen to something on the blown out speakers of my shitty f150 and it will sound how it is supposed to
“Welcome to your opportunity to sound like you …” listen to a band that will be irrelevant in 3 more weeks.
this is not very good.
its not very innovative,
its not really anything new,
its just some more mediocrity wrapped in some american apparel.
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unless you’re 19 or something. enjoy music before cynicism settles in
Kinda sound like I heart Hiroshima but not as good
I like it. it’s SALEM light
@c’mon
It’s not cynicism it’s just taste getting refined. Gotta admit it’s kind of a catchy beat. Also, the chick is hot. I even dig her fat girl arms.
oh yeah the pitchforks talked about these fuzzy ting tings a few months ago…so i’m sure many children are dancing on blow covered coffee tables blasting this while lippin with their lovers…way to be ahead of the game.
oh i got it, they sound like lolita storm
haters. this is bangin’.
i was wondering why gavin dropped “sleigh bells” oh so causally in his last article. now i know. their management gives you money to big them up.
this sucks.
Christ, that’s bad.
Really, just, bad.
nah this is cool, if you’re a high school senior living it up right now and getting all “crazy” w your cigarettes and cheap beers
I hated the Ting Tings a year ago. The girl seems to have piled on some meat and dude got his eyeballs fixed but c’mon, you had your chance.
crap.
def tones?
defying convention here: a sincere comment. yep, I dig em, thanks for this nerds.
WOW way worse than I’d expected as a hyper-intelligent multi dimensional being of light.
They have a sick distorted guitar, AND everything preproduced, AND all she has to do is sing, and the songs still sound really lackluster, unmelodic, and boring, and the live show is nothing to brag about?
JUST because this bitch is kinda hot and has bangs, all of a sudden Sleigh Bells are not boring.
This dude could be ripping insane tap solos while the music gets all super discoed out and overproduced, and the girl actually sings something sweet, etc…….
try harder Brooklyn, everybody’s right, L.A. has similarly shitty bands but it’s like comparing a pile of oranges covered in shit with a pile of egg shells and human hair covered in shit…if you had to eat a pile everybody knows which one you’d choose.
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good stuff, good thing i like it because i feel i will be hearing this everywhere.
Sucks. Sounds awful. Looks ugly. Boring. Guitar player can barely play the extremely easy guitar parts that HE made up. Kinda odd. But seriously – REALLY FUCKING UGLY. And terrible terrible terrible fucking music.
These idiots obviously have some sort of industry connections to have “blown up” like they have. They’ll be forgotten real fast though.
Just saw these turds open for LCD Soundsystem. I didn’t know you could hook up a funnel into a distortion pedal and crap directly through it. But I witnessed that and more tonight. Fuck me if they get popular. I was just starting to feel a glimmer of hope for the music industry.
The fact that you admit there is a hype machine behind this “band”, and also that there were tons of A&R peeps at the shows demonstrates how utterly disposable and irrelevant this drivel truly is.
Just read some idiot comparing this band to The Go! Team Really? Do we really have to have this conversation. Alright, son. You see, The Go! Team plays these things called ‘instruments’, and has ‘talent’. While these hipsters here just plug up their laptop to the monitor and scream over shitty pre-recorded beats. Oh and the dude attempts to play guitar but that does not count because he’s so awful at it.