![]() "Young legends die and so will" admittedly cuts it close. But listen just a little closer and admit that actual nihilist it ain't. That's the kind of thing that happens when you eschew articulation. Sleigh Bells: Bitter Rivals (Mom + Pop, 2013)Īlthough in fact album three is where tiny-voiced Alexis Krauss achieves aesthetic parity with humongous-noised Derek Miller and where megasynths do duty for guitars that always eschewed articulation anyway, I get the general tendency to assume this 2013 entry was more of the loud-minimalist arty-nihilist same. Also not a band that ever understood love as well as this one already does. Their punkiest move is to seize the intro to Television's "Venus." Not actually a punk band, remember. Above all they understand that the two poles actually aren't-"So hold fast to the ones you love/Before they're ripped away," on the political "Night Isn't Bright," signifies more acutely in this ripped-apart time than it did when it surfaced in March. But if they didn't want you to know why she's hanging around so intense they wouldn't put the lyrics on their Bandcamp page. ![]() Tina Halladay's shriek doesn't clarify every consonant, I know. This not-actually-punky Philly rock quintet keeps upping the ante in four-song increments, here divided two political and two love. Sheer Mag: III 7" (Wilsuns RC/Katorga Works EP, 2016) Robert Christgau: Consumer Guides by Review Date:.
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