♫: sleigh bells - crown on the ground (2009)

first post in february! i meant to do a post about the vanishing tonight but i went over to a friends house and watched wwe raw instead? how does that happen? so look forward to that tomorrow. but to hold you over until then another music post. this one about a new band out of brooklyn (go figure) who have combined two of the great trends of the last couple of years: lo-fidelity and dancehall. they go by the name of sleigh bells and they absolutely destroy me. shew, i narrowly avoided that pun. anyways, here's the track:



at first you're probably like, "oh god this is going to be so annoying." but then the beat drops and all of the sudden you're thinking, "what is this feeling that is creeping over me?" which is followed by alexis krauss' twee pop vocals and finally you're lost. you've lost all sense of direction. what was once grindcore is now synth-pop. what is synth-pop is grindcore. and you really don't even know what those terms mean. it's like when your friend tells you how great marshmallow and peanut butter sandwiches are and you're all like, "no thanks i think i'll stick to jelly" and then you try it on a whim and it blows your mind. well its sort of like that...

for some reason they remind me of lady gaga. i think it's something having to do with the change in collective consciousness about what makes acceptable/mass-marketable pop music that lady gaga so obviously symbolizes. sure, taylor swift still dominated the award shows this year with her saccharine americana charm but the fact that someone as undefinable as lady gaga even exists in the popular spectrum gives a hopeful indication of what the future of music could hold. and perhaps the equally undefinable lo-fi dance pop of sleigh bells could be a part of that future?