Sleigh Bells

One of my faves of recent times, and quite underappreciated in my book, are Sliegh Bells, who come
to us straight outta Brooklyn......yet another male/female duo, I've commented a few times on how many great bands of this era took on this format, but there is no arguing the results, ie the White Stripes, The Ravonettes, The Kills, The Firey Furnaces, Mommy and Daddy all great and original bands, Sleigh Bells continue the treand.

Sleigh Bells are guitarist Derek Miller (formerly of Poison the Well, whom I think I profiled on here wonce), and vocalist Alexis Krauss. Thier fine and unique noise-pop is, to me, some very excellent and typlomatic of the sounds of the present......they released a self titeld debut EP in 2009 which I don't have handy here, after I up the rest of the stuff I'll see if there's a copy on the Bay,

So their first full length is a good one, "Tell Em", "Riot Rythm" and "Infinity Guitars" stand out, althought the entire album is worthwhile, a full-blown mature effort.

They followed it up, though, with by far (to now) thier best, "Reign of Terror"......much heavier and less-pop oriented than "Treats", I personally thought it was the best album release of 2012, fascinating from beginning to end, "True Shred Guitar", "The Comeback Kid", "Road to Hell" and many others provide sonic landscapes that REALLY don't remind me of much else, the fingerprints, say of the above mentioned Kills or Raveonettes may be here, but the Bells are NO copycat/trend surfer band.

Things took a step back on the third release "Bitter Rivals", same format, short, guitar drenched blasts, but I think the peak might have been reached on "Reign"......certainly some good stuff on here, the title track and "Sugar Cain" standout.......

Don't know if the Bells have anything planned for us in the future or not, but there are a few decent albums here for you to investigate if you are a fan of modern day electro-noise pop/rock.......hope ya like em, and look for MULTIPLE and greatly VARIED posts this weekend while I celebrate finally getting my computer out of the shop!

TREATS-01 Tell Em/02 Kids/03 Riot Rhythm/04 Infinity Guitars/05 Run the Heart/06 Rachel/07 Rill Rill/08 Crown on the Ground/09 Straight A's/10 A/B Machines/11 Treats

REIGN OF TERROR-01 True Shred Guitar/02 Born To Lose/03 Crush/04 End of the Line/05 Leader
of the Pack/06 Comeback Kid/07 Demons/08 Road to Hell/09 You Lost Me/10 Never Say Die/11 DOA

BITTER RIVALS-01 Bitter Rivals/02 Sugar Cain/03 Minnie/04 Sing Like a Wire/05 Young Legends/06 Tiger Kit/07 You Don't Get Me Twice/08 To Hell With You/09 24/10 Love Sick

Let me know what you think and what you'd like to hear this weekend, I really want to come through with some DIFFERENT stuff this weekend for my patient minions! And thanks to Buckeye PC Repair, even though it took a week, fantastic job, getting excellent performance and at a good price, yet!