Earworm: Sleigh Bells “Crown To The Ground”
November 6th, 2009
Who: Sleigh Bells
Sounds like: Massive, bass-rumbling jams sung played at deafening volumes at a frat party kegger where the only stereo is a cheap one tape-deck ghettoblaster.
RIYL: Solex, Telepathe’s Dance Mother, Bmore Club, Swizz Beatz, M.I.A., no-fi
Need to know: The core members of Brooklyn’s Sleigh Bells are Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss. Krauss spent time in teeny bopper group RubyBlue, while Miller previously played in hardcore bands Poison The Well and Give Up The Ghost; much like his old bandmate Wes Eisold (whose Cold Cave we featured on Wednesday), Miller has traded in his wrist-paralyzing riffs for hipster-approved dance tunes. Former members left the band to form the awesome new fuzz-power-pop act Surfer Blood.
Track: While they’re being embraced by the indie community, “Crown On The Ground” has as much in common with the noise and hip-hop scenes. The head-nodding beat and simple melody sound a hell of a lot like DMX and Swizz Beatz’s shit-disturbing anthem “Party Up (In Here),” while the production is drenched in so much grating hiss and treble that you wonder if the arm on your stereo’s EQ is now sporting a cast. The ridiculousness of how abrasive it sounds seems like it was just the result of being frugal, but it’s this “sound” that makes them unique.
Buy: Nothing to buy yet, but you can grab their demos here.
Tags: Alexis Krauss, Crown To The Ground, Derek Miller, Poison The Well, RubyBlue, Sleigh Bells
Posted on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 4:12 pm by Cam and is filed under Earworm, The New Music.
this song is so sweeeeeeeeeeet