Sleigh Bells - Treats

This review should probably be written completely in block capitals, to help get across the sense of how loud this album actually is. Driving percussion, gargantum riffs, and cheerleader style chants from vocalist Alexis Krauss. All way too loud for your own good. "Treats" is an album that is both poppy, yet heavy at the same time. A serious album that manages to still be more fun than anything in todays top 40. It's hardcore you can dance to. Or bubblegum pop to mosh to. As soon as the machine gun drumming kicks in on opening track "Tell 'Em", you get this wonderful feeling. And you say to yourself "I've never heard anything like this before". And than, for the next half an hour, you are aurally assaulted by sheer noise and ripped to shreds by the hooks that are littered throughout the record. Your head will buzz from the amount of power being injected into it. And you will go back for more.

Tracklisting:

1. Tell Em'

2. Kids

3. Riot Rhythm

4. Infinity Guitars

5. Run the Heart

6. Rachel

7. Rill Rill

8. Crown on the Ground

9. Straight A's

10. A/B Machines

11. Treats

Rating: 9.3/10

Download: "Tell 'Em, "Kids", Infinity Guitars".