With blood streaming from our noses, glittering scarlet on the floor, our arms our outreached as before, bruised hands fingering the play button. We anticipate, we know what’s coming yet with our last vivacity we hold down play yet again. Sleigh Bell’s debut, Treats, is on our stereo and we can’t help, like the aural-masochists that we are, but to play it over and over and meet gratuitously the addictive-pop brutality which Sleigh Bells dish out.
Freshly signed to M.I.A’s N.E.E.T, the doyenne of provocation seeps inbetween the pounding of distortion lending her monotonous-vox to Sleigh Bells’ virtues. Crafting chaos stateside duo, Derek E. Miller and Alexis Krauss, have casted the soundtrack of now. Like our bruises, Treatswill fade. It’s foremost attraction lies within the fact their sound might not outlast 2012, it fits perfectly today. We probably won’t be as angry, we won’t be as courageous as to listen to punkish noise-pop from Brooklyn next month or next year. Treats has the mantra that everyone else lusts after; live for today.
Fighting through the maelstrom; “Crown on the ground” and “Kid” become the most wanted tracks. Goading the primal desires and beat-hungry cravings, grip firm your inhibitions because it’s discustingly abused pop; and we’re hankering for its next blow.
Wiping the latest gush from our beaten noses, the pounding hasn’t gone away but we’re not about to walk from the strong-armed Treats, just yet.
Treats is out now on N.E.E.T recordings, you can check out the lead single ‘Tell ‘Em’ below and find out more about the band here.
