Sleigh Bells shaken to life by MIA

The pop star's interest got Derek Miller the sack as a waiter, but there's no hanging about for a duo making an instant impressionContradiction seems to be the foundation on which Brooklyn-based duo Sleigh Bells are built. It's there in their sound, a kind of skewed pop hybrid of pummelling too-loud-in-the-mix guitars, simple, bone-crunching beats and singer Alexis Krauss's sweetly melodic vocals. The fact that Krauss used to sing in the girl group Rubyblue while producer/guitarist Derek E Mille...

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