"Portions for Foxes" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song by a woman or a band led by a woman. See the introduction for more.
I posted this song here once, ten years ago, and said it felt like "the fight song for that high school on the bad side of town you do not want to mess with." (And that video, I see, is now a broken link.)
This week it's time for Infinity Guitars by Sleigh Bells, another punky, loud, guitar-driven (how could it be otherwise, with that title?) song from those days of the early 21st century.
The lyrics are obscure and vaguely ominous. The guitars are loud and jagged - with a perfect burst of pure noise right at the two-minute mark of this short song.
straight wars straight men
cowboys indians
red souls red friends
infinity guitars
What does any of that mean? Conflict, I think - any particular kind of conflict, I don't know. Maybe just in general. Maybe all the conflict you can take. Maybe every conflict ever.
But, at its core, it's a song that brilliantly answers the question behind a lot of rock music. How many guitars do you need? Infinity Guitars. And away it goes.
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