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Track Listings
| 1. Can You Get To That |
| 2. Tell 'Em |
| 3. Kids |
| 4. Riot Rhythm |
| 5. Infinity Guitars |
| 6. Run The Heart |
| 7. Rachel |
| 8. Rill Rill |
| 9. Crown On The Ground |
| 10. Straight A's |
| 11. A/B Machines |
| 12. Treats |
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Curiously, though, you can hear the influence of both extremes in their debut album Treats. Much like Crystal Castles, this is a group that specialises in mixing up the sweet and the nasty. Electronic beats drop like cartoon anvils, guitars and synths are slathered in distortion, and the mix sometimes appears to have been plotted in order to introduce your ears to the concept of whiplash. But when Krauss isn't dispensing stern, M.I.A.-style raps, she's often to be found cooing in sweet baby-doll sing-song, and when all the bombast and distortion falls away, you realise that at their heart, Sleigh Bells have a knack for writing lovelorn fuzz-pop songs. "I wanna know what's good for you / You wanna know what's good for me," Krauss implores on Run The Heart.
A bewildering but fun bedlam seems to be their default setting, if the first half-dozen or so tracks are anything to go by. Riot Rhythm and Infinity Guitars rock out in a frenzy of angular riffs and chundering beats. This is fun enough, but could also get old over the full-length, so it's to their credit that this is the point that Sleigh Bells switch up their style. The peculiarly beautiful Rachel feels almost tailor-made to soundtrack a Sofia Coppola film, a blend of chopped-up synths and yearning vocals that recall those of My Bloody Valentine's Bilinda Butcher.
It's the following Rill Rill that might just be the duo's most endearing track, though. It's a sassy, country-tinged guitar song that finds Krauss singing about "wondering what your boyfriend thinks about your braces". It won't be Sleigh Bells' signature song, and rightly so–it's the sonic mayhem that'll get them noticed. But like Crystal Castles before them, it suggests they've got content beyond the chaos.
--Louis PattisonFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window
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This poor description shows how different Sleigh Bells are to the norm and deserve a listen. My favourite track is the opener "Tell 'Em" for its brash and unreservedly explosive introduction to the band.
Great album, worth the asking price 100%.
Except. The production.
Now, normally, I feel production is something that should take a back seat but in this case it's impossible to ignore. All these recordings are brutally redlined. Do you remember cassette recorders? Do you remember the crude automatic level control that messed your recordings up and meant that whenever the drums cut in everything else cut out? Well, Sleigh Bells have used a bunch of expensive valve gear to achieve exactly the same effect. presumably. I dunno, maybe they did run it through the mic on an old portable. You could hold it up as a masterclass in how not to master a record. It shouldn't work at all.
This is either complete idiocy or a stroke of genius. I'm coming down on the side of genius. Somehow it all works. This is a great record.
PS My partner commented "if it weren't for the production it would be the Ting Tings". She's right. I don't think this is a bad thing on any count.
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