It’s the kick-and-snare pattern from “Gold Digger,” just played on a different drum machine with different kicks and claps and a guitar riff on top of it. I was trying to marry those two worlds.t’s interesting that you mentioned the fact that that sort of heavy/sweet juxtaposition is so common now. I remember when we first started doing interviews and being asked about the music, people were really struggling to give us a genre, to give us a label.
in the studio, I would be singing very quietly, and then that would be bumped up and blown out. So getting that sort of breathy, soft approach and delivery was hard in a live performance. It’d be me trying to sing “Rill Rill,” for example, over these really loud beats and cacophonous music, and that was definitely challenging. It was much easier to do the full-on shouting forand “Infinity Guitars.
I wanted to ask about “Rill Rill” specifically — that’s such a special song in the Sleigh Bells body of work. And that Funkadelic sample is just timeless.is one of my favorite songs of all time. And the lyrics are this kind of pure abstraction. I have nothing but respect for people who write coherent narrative, but that’s never really been what we do. I don’t mean to sound pretentious, but I’ve always been more about mood and imagery and feeling.
amazing album