Landmines In My Mind

Sleigh Bells “Justine Go Genesis”

Sleigh Bells is a band, but they’re also a blueprint and a prototype of what rock music could become. In this way “Justine Go Genesis” – a glorious hybrid of Slayer riffs and Spice Girls pop decked out with breakneck drum & bass beats and a stray organ parts straight out of ? And the Mysterians – is both classic Sleigh Bells and next-level Sleigh Bells, pushing everything to a new degree of ultra-hype frenzy. It’s faster, harder, catchier, brighter. It’s a thing that’s made to jolt you, to make you feel more alive and in the moment. I hear it as a rejection of the world as it is, a refusal to live on anyone else’s dreary terms even if doing so means attempting to force your fantasy into reality. The point of view in the lyrics certainly presents dodging boredom and misery as a life-or-death prospect, and every beat and twist and turn in the song feels like you’re right there with her outrunning some awful fate.

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