What BPM is best for general running?

SLEIGH BELLS features an average 140 BPM, ideal for general running workouts.

SLEIGH BELLS - Running Music

Three chords, zero patience, sixty-four minutes of guitars that sound like they're being shredded through a jet engine.\n\nThis is Sleigh Bells' full Metro Chicago set from August 2022, plus a few bonus cuts to stretch your run past the hour mark. If you've never experienced Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller live, this is what it sounds like: cheerleader chants colliding with metal riffs, pop hooks buried under distortion so thick you can taste it. It's not background music. It's confrontational running music that dares your legs to quit before the setlist does.\n\nThe opening salvo—"Justine Go Genesis" into "Riot Rhythm" into "Tennessee Tips"—establishes the aesthetic immediately: loud, fast, unapologetic. The middle stretch locks into a relentless groove through classics like "Infinity Guitars" and "A/B Machines," tracks that feel like they're physically pushing you forward. Then "SWEET75" arrives right when you need something louder than the voice telling you to slow down. It's pure noise-pop adrenaline, all jagged edges and aggressive energy.\n\nThe final third doesn't let up. "Crown On The Ground" and "Blue Trash Mattress Fire" hit like a second wind made of feedback and fury, while "Rill Rill" offers the only breather in the entire hour—a brief moment of melody before the chaos resumes. This playlist works for tempo runs where you need to stay locked in, or angry easy days where "easy" is a suggestion you're choosing to ignore. Mile six is when most runs get hard. This setlist makes hard feel like the point.

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