VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Limited pressing of 1,000! On 180 gram white vinyl. Includes a CD copy of the album. Alpinisms is an electronically enhanced pop record of dizzying highs and claustrophobic lows whose painstaking conception shows in its detail-laden crevices. On the album's best tracks - the polyrhythmic dream-pop of "Face to Face in High Places," the nervous shimmer of "My Cabal," the menacing lilt of "Iamundernodisguise" - Curtis constructs layers of shoegazing, moire   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Comprised of ex-Secret Machines guitarist Benjamin Curtis and On! Air! Library! sister set Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, School of Seven Bells intricately infuse a pysch-rock aesthetic that freely weaves itself in an ethereal of lush harmonics, richly textured beats and ripping riffs. Besides the notable names that make up this dynamic group, the band has toured with the likes of such artists as Prefuse 73 and Blonde Redhead. This limited edition 7" features a brand spanking new track from t   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. "My Cabal," the third single from School of Seven Bell's Alpinisms, has at its core a rather telling bit of wordplay. The word "cabal" - usually pronounced "kuh-BALL," meaning a secret, conspiratorial clique not unlike School of Seven Bells themselves - is here pronounced "cable," like the electronic connector. Appropriately, the song "My Cabal" reflects that strange conflation of technology and the supernatural, spinning a drum-machine throb, a few chiming guitars, and a My Bloody Vale   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. If School of Seven Bells' Alpinisms is divided between two stylistic imprints - one consisting of heavenly drones and soaring melodies, the other built upon tribal beats and hypnotic, incantatory vocals - then "Iamundernodisguise," the album's second single, is most definitely the latter. A sinister electronic calypso marked by ping-ponging percussion and one of the Deheza sisters' slinkier melodies, "Iamundernodisguise" teases out School of Seven Bells' darker side within the parameter   [ read more ]

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'My Cabal,' the third single from School of Seven Bell's Alpinisms, has at its core a rather telling bit of wordplay. The word 'cabal' - usually pronounced 'kuh-BALL,' meaning a secret, conspiratorial clique not unlike School of Seven Bells themselves - is here pronounced 'cable,' like the electronic connector. Appropriately, the song 'My Cabal' reflects that strange conflation of technology and the supernatural, spinning a drum-machine throb, a few chiming guitars, and a My Bloody Valentine-style atmosphe   [ read more ]

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School of Seven Bells stylishly split the difference between shoegazing introspection and stargazing dream pop. Half Asleep/Caldo is a taste of School of Seven Bells' full-length, Alpinisms.

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Behold! A lovely black 100% cotton School of Seven Bells t-shirt featuring a graphic from Alpinisms. Size SMALL.

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The School of Seven Bell's Iamundernodisguise is an electronic calypso marked by ping-ponging percussion and one of the Deheza sisters' slinkier melodies, Iamundernodisguise teases out School of Seven Bells' sinister side within the parameters of a darkly catchy pop song. Repetition is the key here, as the Dehezas sing breathy, cryptic promises (?I am neither walker nor sleeper / I am neither sister, brother, son, nor daughter?) over and over as the beat goes on.B-side Trance Figure   [ read more ]

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From the breathing clouds of the living mountain emerge School of Seven Bells and their dazzling 12-inch debut, Face to Face on High Places. Benjamin Curtis, formerly of Secret Machines, leads with heliospheric guitar invocations. Bassist James Elilott (Ateleia) and drummer Joe Stickney (Rhys Chatham) provide the rhythm; twin sisters Alejandra Deheza (On! Air! Library!) and Claudia Deheza (On! Air! Library!, A Cloud Mireya) cast an irresistibly intense psychomagical spell with celestial vocal arrangements,    [ read more ]

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Ben Curtis' desertion of Secret Machines and the breakup of On!Air!Library! was justified by this group's first single, a sky-gliding confection that modernized the sighing, swirling, private dancefloor sides of Medicine, Seefeel, and My Bloody Valentine. Included as the finale on Alpinisms, the debut album from Curtis and O!A!L!'s singing Deheza twins, "My Cabal" has the feel of a bonus track; the later recordings that precede it, despite remaining squarely within the domai   [ read more ]

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