Date
Tuesday 18 May 2010 at 8:00pm
Location
The Macbeth
70 Hoxton Street,
London,
N1 6LP,
United Kingdom
Tel: 020 7739 5095
Link
Description
Sleigh Bells are just a duo — Derek on beat production, guitars, and songwriting; Alexis Krauss on vocals — but their tracks ram together many sonic worlds. Their electronic beats thud with gut-rattling low end; guitars are distorted siren squalls, or heavily gated and thoroughly crunched power chords, or playful, beta-band-esque strums. Krauss flips easily from hip-hop hook, to pop power, to sunshined, coquettish coos.
Past members of Sleigh Bells went on to form buzz-band Surfer Blood. Derek’s old hardcore band Poison The Well toured with Give Up The Ghost, the defunct hardcore outfit of past BTW Cold Cave’s Wes Eisold. Alexis Krauss is a school teacher with a pop-singer past. All of which gives certain strength to their reinvention in this excellent new outfit.
Their combustible pop is finely razed by Alexis Krauss’s outsized yet totally natural stage presence.
London based DJ thisaintnodisco started out as a regular for Eat Your Own Ears events and club shows. Playing a vast array of styles, from L.A Dream Pop and New York Garage to London Lo-Fi and Warpy Electronica, he prides himself on an ever changing set list. With notable recent appearances, alongside the likes of Memory Tapes, Gold Panda, Allez Allez, Is Tropical and Pantha Du Prince, the future certainly looks bright. Check out his musically musings over at the Newsletter For The Partially Sighted blog.
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www.ticketweb.co.uk
08444 771000
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0870 264 3333
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