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-patterned gu...   [ 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 ...   [ 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 Valentine-...   [ read more ]

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