marathonpacks: Matthew on Sleigh Bells’ Treats: To some extent, it’s a meta conceit...

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Matthew on Sleigh Bells’ Treats:

To some extent, it’s a meta conceit not unlike the way lo-fi and chillwave artists present their songs with a deliberate patina of age and grit intended evoke the aesthetics of recording and playback devices of the past. The obvious difference is that …

I like Matthew’s take on Sleigh Bells a lot. It sort of reminds me - perhaps cos I just got reminded of this elsewhere! - of Jonathan Bogart’s idea of autotune as generational dividing line.

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    This is tangential to your point, but one of the pieces I was most proud of during my second Voice stint was a platEAU...
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    Yesss this is what I was getting at with my “the rips you had before you had the good rips” thing (which, incidentally,...
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    I like Matthew’s take...Bells a lot. It sort of reminds me - perhaps cos I just got...
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