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Indie Rock Duo's Fifth Album Pressed On Clear Vinyl LP!
After releasing their 2010 album Treats on Mom+Pop - which became an indie classic, deemed 'Best New Music' by Pitchfork, 'phenomenal' by Paste Magazine, 'pop smarts' by Rolling Stone, and a 'game-changer' by Stereogum - Sleigh Bells have returned to the label for their fifth studio album, Texis.
Texis is the sound of the duo letting go of hang-ups and inhibitions and allowing themselves to embrace the sort of loud, colorful, genre-melting music only they could make. "We stopped worrying about whether or not we're in or out of our comfort zone, or if we were being repetitive or formulaic," says Derek Miller. After pushing themselves to sound less obviously "Sleigh Bells" on their 2017 EP Kid Kruschev, he found he'd started to reject a lot of his best creative impulses. On Texis, the duo decided to simply push the first domino and see what would happen, chasing down whatever excitement and inspiration followed; the resulting album is pure fireworks, full of the best songs Sleigh Bells have ever written and recorded.
One of the band's goals in writing Texis was to infuse even the most abrasive and full-blast songs with something that made the music feel "nourishing" to them. "The thing I'm most attracted to is the juxtaposition of happy and sad, melancholy and hope," says Miller. "A lot of this is about trying to hold on to a shred of optimism through sheer force of will, and I hope this music can give people some joyful energy and confidence."
Features
- Clear Vinyl
- Explicit Content
Selections
- SWEET75
- An Acre Lost
- I'm Not Down
- Locust Laced
- Knowing
- Justine Go Genesis
- Tennessee Tips
- Rosary
- Red Flag Flies
- True Seekers
- Hummingbird Bomb
