Sleighing the East Coast Ticket Sales

So by now, you should have heard of Sleigh Bells.

Embedded YouTube vidya for Sleigh Bell's "Holly"

They've been tearing it up across the blogs, through the circulatory system of Pitchfork, the CMJ and the Williamsburg scene.

If not, welcome to the next genre bending sensation.  A lot of fools try and say, "we're not defined by labels".  I actually enjoy how Sleigh Bells just seem to screw all types of conceived notions and shoves up their notiony bung.

This release reminds a lot of Beck's Mellow Gold in a lot of ways.  When Beck made Mellow Gold, people were trying to figure out all of the rap and hip hop influences out, trying to see where Beck got it all from...trying to make it seem like he's unoriginal.

So what if he was Public Enemy meets Bob Dylan, jilted by the church of Cobain.  Beck just did it!  And the music was his, he owned it.

Much like that, it seems Sleigh Bells is approaching their music similarly.  People are accusing them of ripping off crunk and dirty south beats.  But these releases they've made go beyond just using crunk...crunk's their beat, not the soul.  Like saying Chuck Berry was unoriginal for using the "boogie".

Even their interviews were non-chalant and unpretentious...even if they made ABC NEWS and played at the NPR, CMJ, Pitchfork, IAMSOUND etc... parties at SXSW...  Is this the real deal?  Well, when the uppity and large word using New Yorker gives them a glowing write up, you know it's got to be the cusp of something big...like MGMT big, blowing up with hype.

(You'll never see this kind of ticket price or hand-made flyer art again...*sniffles*)

Well, it's going to be real enough that you're never going to get a concert ticket unless you've gotten it already...

Much like how MGMT sold out the 930 club in minutes of going on pre-sale when they were touring Oracular Spectacular...this is the real deal, hipster shit.  Get it while it's steaming and before it gets remixed to all hell and the follow-up album sounds nothing like this ;)

(I actually like "Congratulations" a good bit...and yes honey bun, I'm enjoying Plastic Beach more and more too).

Though I would really love to hear an Alan Braxe remix of Crown on the Ground...just saying!

Youtube vidya of "Crown on the Ground" by Sleigh Bells