Bunky Becky Birthday Boy

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Bunky Becky Birthday Boy
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 4, 2025 (2025-04-04)
Genre
Length33:56
Label Mom + Pop
Producer
Sleigh Bells chronology
Texis
(2021)
Bunky Becky Birthday Boy
(2025)
Singles from Bunky Becky Birthday Boy
  1. "Bunky Pop"
    Released: February 19, 2025

Bunky Becky Birthday Boy is the sixth studio album by American musical duo Sleigh Bells. It was released on April 4, 2025, by Mom + Pop Music. [1]

Contents

The first released project since the duo's 2021 album, Texis , the album was preceded by the single "Bunky Pop", which was released on February 19, 2025. The single was followed by a music video featuring Dylan Gelula, and directed by Derek Miller and Alex Ross Perry. [4]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
New Noise Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [6]
Paste 7.6/10 [7]
Pitchfork 5.4/10 [1]
Sputnikmusic 3.6/5 [3]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]

Pitchfork rated the album 5.4 out of ten and describing it as "clean and crisp where it should spin out, bubbly where it should be brash." [1]

Billboard referred to it as the duo's "latest day-glo furnace blast of joyous, raucous metal pop." [2] Paste Magazine assigned it a rating of 7.6 out of ten and called the album "a nimble late-career return to form that enlivens their signature loudness with a renewed sense of spirit." [7] Sputnikmusic commented "This thing throws itself into any number of saccharine earworms and goonish singalongs, its brash arena chords a good match for some of the duo's most energizing material to date." [3]

Heather Phares of AllMusic remarked "By giving equal time to headbanging and heartbreak, they've made an immensely satisfying album that's among their finest." [5] New Noise Magazine noted "On the 11-song album, the listener journeys through fun twists and turns with something new around each corner." [6]

The New York Times wrote in its review of the album, describing it as "a recombinant bash, slamming together selected elements of loud and louder styles — punk, metal, grunge, hip-hop, electro, glam, garage-rock," [9] while The Skinny referred to it as "a return to the immediacy that made Sleigh Bells' name – but you wonder whether they had to sacrifice quite so much of the nuance of their last couple of albums in the process." [8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller.

Bunky Becky Birthday Boy track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Bunky Pop"3:01
2."Wanna Start a Band?"2:53
3."Life Was Real"2:38
4."Roxette Ric"2:48
5."This Summer"3:03
6."Can I Scream"2:33
7."Badly"2:35
8."Blasted Shadow"2:30
9."Real Special Cool Thing"2:43
10."Hi Someday"3:56
11."Pulse Drips Quiet"3:16
Total length:33:56

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. [10]

Sleigh Bells

Additional contributors

Charts

Chart performance for Bunky Becky Birthday Boy
Chart (2025)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [11] 58
UK Album Downloads (OCC) [12] 77
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [13] 21

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Blum, Dani (April 9, 2025). "Sleigh Bells: Bunky Becky Birthday Boy". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Kaufman, Gil (April 7, 2025). "Sleigh Bells Chronicle Best of Times & Worst of Times on Joyful, Thundering Bunky Becky Birthday Boy Album". Billboard . Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Well, Johnny (April 7, 2025). "Review: Sleigh Bells – Bunky Becky Birthday Boy". Sputnikmusic . Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  4. Breihan, Tom (February 19, 2025). "Sleigh Bells Announce New Album Bunky Becky Birthday Boy: Hear "Bunky Pop"". Stereogum . Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Phares, Heather. "Bunky Becky Birthday Boy – Sleigh Bells". AllMusic . Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  6. 1 2 Von Rinehart, Luke (April 7, 2025). "Album Review: Sleigh Bells – Bunky Becky Birthday Boy". New Noise Magazine . Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  7. 1 2 Rosenberg, Sam (April 4, 2025). "Sleigh Bells Recalibrate on the Bouncy Bunky Becky Birthday Boy". Paste Magazine . Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  8. 1 2 Goggins, Joe (April 2, 2025). "Sleigh Bells – Bunky Becky Birthday Boy Album Review". The Skinny . Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  9. Pareles, Jon (April 8, 2025). "Getting Loud With Sleigh Bells and Beyond". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  10. "Bunky Becky Birthday Boy / Sleigh Bells / Credits". Tidal . Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  11. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  12. "Official Album Downloads Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  13. "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 19, 2025.