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Sleigh Bells

Bunky Becky Birthday Boy

Sixth full-length album from the Brooklyn noise pop duo Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek Miller

ADM rating[?]

6.3

Label
MOM+POP
UK Release date
04/04/2025
US Release date
04/04/2025
  1. 8.0 |   All Music

    By giving equal time to headbanging and heartbreak, they've made an immensely satisfying album that's among their finest
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  2. 8.0 |   DIY

    A joyfully nostalgic thread runs through it
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  3. 7.6 |   Paste Magazine

    After a series of disappointing, overwrought releases, the Brooklyn noise-pop duo’s sixth album is a nimble late-career return to form that enlivens their signature loudness with a renewed sense of spirit
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  4. 7.4 |   Northern Transmissions

    It’s a lean, energized album that reminds us why we fell for this band in the first place
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  5. 7.2 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    The album's relatively narrow focus does it few favours here; its reluctance to experiment outside of sparkly, quickfire bangers inadvertently spotlights how the appeal of its weaker cuts is directly interchangeable with that of the highlights
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  6. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    Brooklyn noise pop duo Sleigh Bells return to the maximalist immediacy of old, with mixed results
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  7. 5.4 |   Pitchfork

    You may long for 2010, but the jittery, irreverent pop-punk of the duo’s new album can’t recapture the fluorescent glow of their glory days
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  8. 3.0 |   PopMatters

    Sleigh Bells’ new album is the sound of a band who desperately want to move on from being pigeonholed, but toss in some distracting, misplaced easter eggs
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