There are only so many employment options for dudes who are into hardcore and approaching 30: bartender, tattoo artist, and drug dealer are some of the most common. Another popular option is starting an indie band, like Pitchfork-friendly duo SLEIGH BELLS. As you may know, the band is Derek from 90s metalcore pioneers Poison The Well and some homely, annoying hipster bish who sings. Sounds like stuff I hate, right? Not so fast!
Sleigh Bells “Infinity Guitars”
My favorite Poison The Well song, “Nerdy”
“I’m secretly playing a Snapcase riff”
While I’m not really into their music, and in many ways Sleigh Bells are pretty much a checklist of things I hate (Brooklyn, hipsters, dance punk, girls with indie bangs, etc), there is one thing that makes me love them: Derek’s sick Jackson guitar! Nothing says “awesome 90s metalcore” like a Jackson (as seen in bands like 18 Visions, Abnegation, Morning Again, Earth Crisis, etc).
Vintage mosh-era 18 Visions, circa 1997. Note James’ Vegan Reich shirt, Throwdown vocalist Dave Peters in the XL basketball jersey, and that BOTH guitarists playing Jacksons!
It’s a small detail, but it’s enough for me– I take it as a little nod from Derek that says “I might be in a Pitchfork band now, but I’m still a moshbro who remembers losing my shit at Strongarm shows.” Big ups to Derek for making some cash, and count me as a Sleigh Bells fan!
Man, I haven’t heard Nerdy in forever, sick track. Had no idea that Sleigh Bells had ex-screamo cred, but it makes sense since SB is noiselectro and all.
poison the well wasn’t a screamo band you fucking moron.
They remind me of shit like Wavves. SO terrible.
I’ve never heard Poison the Well before, but they’re probably the best metalcore I’ve heard, not that I listen to much.
She’s just walking down the street and “singing” while he soon joins and plays guitar along with. Full-blown vocal effects and a guitar that sounds like it’s being played through a broken amp, yet they’re just walking down the street producing these sounds magically. It begs an explanation.
Sounds like it should be a filler song on a Shiny Toy Guns album.
the singer for Shiny Toy Guns is a 90s hardcore girl according to some friends of mine who know her
I like a lot of their music, from both of their albums (stg). They both have a few boring filler songs too, though. I am looking forward to the new one.
It’s funny, I originally heard them because some myspace slut i dated a few times in 2007 loved the song “le disko”.
I’m really into “Infinity Guitars,” but I don’t like most of their other stuff. “Infinity Guitars” basically has an E-40 drum beat with a neat little repetitive guitar riff. Other than the singer bish, It’s basically perfect as far as I’m concerned.
LOVE THAT SHIT
the lulziest part is all the comments on youtube asking “Is there a higher-audio-quality version of this?”
Ha! “is there a version with higher-quality video, too? The compression makes the singer look like shes a homely indie girl.”
So that Jackson guitar is kinda like me wearing my Cattle Decapitation shirt under a dress shirt and singing choir songs about Jesus. I get it.
I like this band much, much more than poison the well.
I thought they were really catchy at first, then they got really old and now I despise them.
first of all, “homely”? come on… look at this fucking cutie
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/53107289/Alexis+Krauss.png
second of all there are a lot of their songs i can’t really get into, but i really love a couple of them – “ring ring”, “run the heart”, “crown on the ground” etc. total summer jamz. i also think the intentional over-mixing is kinda cool. maybe it’s been done but obviously a lot of interesting innovations and effects in music come from people using their instruments/technology “wrong”.
They remind me of Atari Teenage Riot except not as good and 10+ years late. Also, I don’t understand where “homely” is coming from. I find Ms. Krauss rather cute.
im not into indie chicks (big bush)
We see our differences, only to find more of ourselves.
JACKSON GUITARS ARE ALWAYS BACKED.
Poison The Well will forever own my heart.
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