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#326 Dessa & Sleigh Bells Review

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2012

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Jim and Greg welcome singer, poet and rapper Dessa and review the latest from electro-pop duo Sleigh Bells.

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I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student body all having to do with rock and roll music.

0:13.0

Oh, I'm down, picture man. Now if you don't think this song is the greatest song ever. I will fight you.

0:35.0

Sharply observed, deeply personal and genre-defying.

0:39.0

Those are just some of the terms I'd use to describe rapper and poet Dessa. I'm Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune.

0:45.0

And I'm Jim Deeregatus from W.BeeZ and Columbia College.

0:48.0

Hip-hop artist, Dessa and her band join us in the studio and we review the new album from Electro Pop Duo, sleigh bells.

0:54.5

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

0:59.8

From W.B.E.Z. Chicago and distributed by PRX you're listening to sound opinions and now it's time for some music news Well, where the fancies live and they do live well,

1:15.0

Stonehenge, where a man for man and the children dance

1:20.0

to the pipes of the time. Greg that of course is the immortal spinal tap with their classic tune Stonehenge.

1:40.0

Greg that of course is the immortal spinal tap with their classic tuned Stonehenge for centuries.

1:46.0

People have been wondering what that circle of giant rocks in the English countryside dating

1:51.9

back to 2500 BC what does it mean?

1:54.8

Was there a rhyme or reason or are they just big rocks in a field?

1:59.1

A fascinating new theory is emerging from a US scientist named Stephen Waller who is claiming that the

2:05.8

positions of the standing stones matches patterns in sound waves created by a

2:11.4

pair of musical instruments.

2:14.0

When two people played the same instrument,

2:17.0

probably some sort of primitive flute,

2:19.0

in the circle the patterns of auditory waves changed and basically you tripped out on them.

2:25.4

I'll just read his quote.

2:27.0

The effect would be magic and supernatural. Some rock musicians have said this in the past not only spinal tap but the great

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