Sleigh Bells Return with New TUne ‘Wanna Start a Band?’
This is the noise-rock act’s first release in three years.
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Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells are back with ‘Wanna Start a Band?’, their first new single in three years.
The track is firmly entrenched in the noise-rock sound singer Alexis Krauss and producer-guitarist Derek Miller are known for. The track is actually over ten years old, as revealed in a statement released by Krauss.
“In 2008 while eating at a restaurant in Brooklyn with my mom, our server, Derek, wasted very little time asking me, essentially, ‘Wanna start a band?’ Hard to believe that almost 17 years later we are still hyped and obsessively making records together. Derek started messing with the riff for this song around 2014 — it needed a lot of work, but a spark was there. We had a band by then but didn’t know how long it would last. For us, this song is a reminder of how we started, but it’s also the first part of a new story we want to tell — more on that very soon! We hope you will come along for the ride!”
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The release of ‘Wanna Start a Band?’ coincides with Sleigh Bells’ upcoming North American and Canadian tour that sees the band perform 25 dates across May and June.
While there has been no word forthcoming on whether a new album is in the works, it’s more than likely Sleigh Bells will have more music on the horizon.
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