Sleigh Bells release ‘Wanna start a band’, their first track since 2021

Sleigh Bells have returned with their first new music since 2021’s ‘Texis’, sharing new single ‘Wanna Start a Band’.

The noise-pop duo, comprising Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller, have crafted the track around a riff that Miller first developed in 2014.

“In 2008 while eating at a restaurant in Brooklyn with my mom, our server, Derek, wasted very little time asking me, essentially, ‘Wanna start a band?’” Krauss explains. “Hard to believe that almost 17 years later we are still hyped and obsessively making records together. Derek started messing with the riff for this song around 2014 — it needed a lot of work, but a spark was there. We had a band by then but didn’t know how long it would last. For us, this song is a reminder of how we started, but it’s also the first part of a new story we want to tell — more on that very soon! We hope you will come along for the ride.”

The duo are also set to hit the road later this year. The dates in full read:

MAY
7 Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, USA
9 The Observatory, Constellation Room, Santa Ana, USA
10 Belly Up, Solana Beach, USA
13 August Hall – Music Hall, San Francisco, USA
16 Hawthorne Theatre, Portland, USA
17 Hollywood Theatre, Vancouver, Canada
19 Neptune Theatre, Seattle, USA
21 Summit, Denver, USA
23 White Oak Music Hall – Downstairs, Houston, USA
24 Granada Theater, Dallas, USA
25 Mohawk, Austin, USA
28 The RITZ Ybor, Tampa, USA
29 Plaza Live, Orlando, USA
30 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale, USA

JUNE
1 Terminal West, Atlanta, USA
2 The Orange Peel, Asheville, USA
3 Union Transfer, Philadelphia, USA
5 9:30 Club, Washington DC, USA
6 Paradise Rock Club, Boston, USA
7 Webster Hall, New York, USA
10 Axis Club Theatre, Toronto, Canada
11 El Club, Detroit, USA
12 The Metro, Chicago, USA
14 Fine Line, Minneapolis, USA
15 Majestic Theatre, Madison, USA