A Thread For School of Seven Bells Love!

Interpol was good on record from 2002 to 2004. After that, fuck it.

I say brief things, my love's temporal, the hype's ephemeral.

How disappointed am I when I see that this thread has new answers on it... and they're about bloody Interpol. Do not wake me from mine slumber unless you have things to say about SVIIB k thx bye

Kate, you make Paul Banks sad.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/33521279/Julian+Plenti+275779.jpg

HE IS WINKING @ U W/ A CULINARY EYE

Ew.

Get that thing off my nice clean thread and replace it with something pointy nosed and ginger if you please.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/96/215120003_fe34e0090f_o.jpg

Kudos to Sam V. IV & Ghostly for releasing these records. After ten years of Factory-style cash drops on uberpremium sleeve design for niche IDM shit, he deserves to have a runaway hit & this next SVIIB record probably is probably better poised to perform as such than anything Ghostly has put out since... Alpinisms?

the album is out on vagrant.

Both labels:

http://ghostly.com/releases/disconnect-from-desire

http://www.vagrant.com/artists/media/36-school_of_seven_bells?release_id=253-disconnect

...

hmm. maybe ghostly truly is INTERNATIONAL.

pillbox your DN is XD

;)

(I do actually have that On!Air!Library! record - doesn't really sound particularly like SVIIB much, though you can obviously hear the germination of their sound.)

Pulled this off the shelf last night, listening today. It's better than I recalled! And yes, you can hear the SVIIB sound starting to take root, esp. in the vocal stylings. The groove on track 1 is just massive, btw. And the Interpol drummer guests on that track. Yet another connection between the SVIIB/O!A!L!/Secret Machines/Interpol love fest... ;-)

"Bambalance" is tremendous. The dissonant guitar! Somehow the whole thing reminds me of, like, Cabaret Voltaire (don't ask). Too bad the following track, "Sad Sad Zoo," is really just... boring. Sounds like a bad Smog track.

OK, I'm gonna get that On!Air!Library! record off the shelf again then. You have inspired me.

(Still hate Interpol though)

love this record to bits, really psyched for the new one

New album is fantastic - Windstorm undersells how much they've progressed from shoegaze fandom. Heart Is Strange is mega-rave-goth in the spirit, though not the precise sound, of Ladytron's Destroy Everything You Touch. Totally addictive.

Stop rubbing it in that you have it and I don't yet. :-(

Just trying to hype you up. Heart Is Strange is my latest crush song.

Hello:

Indie-pop trio SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS is offering fans the opportunity to hear their new album Disconnect from Desire in its entirety prior to release day on July 13th. Beginning today at 12 pm EDT, the album will be available via stream on RollingStone.com and the band's website, SVIIB.com. To access the stream via the band's website, fans will be asked to join the mailing list. To coincide with the online premiere of the stream, SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS will release an exclusive new interview on their YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/schoolofsevenbells.)

Also, fall tour dates were announced, can't wait to see them at the Detroit Bar again...

AWESOME

Oh! I meant to revive this thread.

Any London people - I seem to have a spare (free) ticket to the secret gig on the 8th July. If anyone wants it, please email me.

So much for streaming:

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Streaming from RollingStone.com, then.

Second track is incredible.

One track from the end and I'm thinking this whole album is really consistently solid. It doesn't (yet) have the completely blissful highs as Alpinisms does on a couple tracks, but it'll likely grow on me. A lot. I really like it.

Also can't wait to hear the full-blown production job, instead of a RS.com stream through shitty earbuds.

School of Seven Bells show a couple hours ago was holyshitamazing. I've caught their show 2 or 3 times before and it was great, yes, but went into tonight's thing expecting more of the same. So they were 30 min late to the stage... "My Cabal" came and went as song #1, it was enjoyable and sounded great (glad that long soundcheck was put to good use). So that was that; I was expecting them to breeze through "Fast Asleep," "Disguise," "Connjur" and the rest on autopilot, pretty but predictable.

Nope. Song 2 was brand new, same with 3, 4, 5... All a BIG progression from Alpinisms, waaaayyy wayy better (and I say this with Alpinisms being one of my most played, and favorite, albums of the past few years).

The new songs are more confident, less fleeting and the vocal interplay has been really pushed forward. They still do the dual vocals thing but I dare say it's improved, been spotlighted at the front of each song, more complex harmonies, just absolutely gorgeous. Meanwhile Ben Curtis has gone more in a Kevin Shields direction, guitar parts less Cocteau ambient-wash, more muscular, straight out of Medicine's "5ive" or "Aruca" era stuff, blasts of feedback stabbing between Spector-y vocal harmonies. Song tempos are all faster, easier to dance to; they've kept the drum machine but added a live fourth member who compliments it well. First new song had me floored, almost at tears, just incredibly beautiful and absolutely the right direction for their sound to go next.

Watch out... This new album is really gonna be something to fuck with.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, March 19, 2010 9:54 PM

I wrote this back in March 2010 after seeing the live show. The bolded part was referring to "Bye Bye Bye," which I think is one of the better tracks here. Live it definitely had a bigger wall of guitars than it has on record. Which I hope they keep doing live, because it was utterly moving and transportive and I can't fucking wait to experience it again in person.

I really think they are just that kind of act that will be best heard live -- Radiohead are kinda the same way for me, much as I love their work (still kills me I haven't been able to see them since 2003...)

London? Anyone?

They really become more muscular live. More noise, feedback. Guitars turned waaayy up in the mix. Full-on shoegaze worship.

xp

Case in point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amg1hRpYbIg

That was pretty much... AMAZING.

Love the new drummer, really adds a depth and looseness that, although it wasn't missing before, still very much added to the equation.

I'll leave it to Lex to give his own impressions... but what a fabulous show.

it was great, and i'm so glad i got to see them in a venue that small. had never seen them before properly, but live they conveyed everything i expected from their records and then some - such a great sense of build and release. the deheza sisters' voices are actually really different! i don't know why i didn't expect that.

i also thought ben was super-hott

shirt unbuttoned juuust enough to show off the tat in the dead centre of his chest

The Lex is lusting after a DDB. This is amusing me SOOOO much you have no idea.

I liked the moment we both realised it was a tattoo. Like "Is that a tattoo?" :;stares:: "Or is it a shirt?" ::stares some more:: "I don't know, but I'm really enjoying trying to figure it out" ::both stare a little more::

The thing is, Benjamin is such a sweetheart that I feel really bad about lusting after him the way I do, whenever he comes over and talks to me and he's just like this big, bouncy oversized puppy and he's *lovely*. And then I feel really really bad about trying to stare at his chest for half an hour.

Well if he didn't want you to stare he shouldn't be wearing his shirt that way..

I didn't mean to end up standing at the front (really), just wanted to stand somewhere where I could see..

This is very, very true.

Christ, was it crammed enough, though. I don't think that was a 150 capacity venue. I think that was more like a 75 capacity venue they rammed 150 people into.

i thought i saw you jill but wasn't sure!!

staring at ben's chest was very calming after the mad group of girls next to us decided to take 9484397 photos of each other throughout the entirety of "ilu". i get taking photos of your friends at gigs but a) so many? b) you couldn't wait til between songs?

Still trying to work out if the new drummer is an extra Curtis brother or not. He kinda looks like a cross between Benjamin and Brandon - but I think two sets of siblings in one band would be too much for anyone.

Can I just --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKTnN_91eg

"heart is strange", "dust devil" and "ilu" are my immediate favs on the new album

Stupid me for pre-ordering the album so I could get the free tickets and actually having to wait until I get the physical copy before I get to hear how great it is... OK, I lie, I've been listening to the live MP3s, but I can't wait to hear how much more intricate and layered the recorded material is.

I hope I'm not building it up too much - but I pretty much already know, based on the live material, that this is going to be my album of the year.

It's just that kind of build and momentum - they manage to achieve this kind of trance state with their music which is not entirely motorik, and yet not entirely "dancefloor dynamics" either - they just have such a great sense of being able to create a mood and sustain tension.

oops. sorry for not coming over to say hi last night. we rushed off for food afterwards because my friend and I were hungry.

Kate, the album is steaming on the rolling stone website. thought it a bit odd that they couldn't give us the album last night.

Yeah, I don't understand why we couldn't just get the album on the door, since we'd all already paid for it. (well, obviously not the plus ones, but if you were on the list, you'd bought it.)

I suppose coz it's not technically coming out until next week.

Cos you mite put it on the interwebs... o wait :(

THIS NEW ALBUM IS SO DAMN GOOD

Stream (reposting): http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/151087

They're playing with IUD (Gang Gang Dance side project) in late July which is a weird but cool booking :)

THIS NEW ALBUM IS SO DAMN GOOD
otmfm

it's like all the best parts of liz fraser and blinda from mbv yet something completely their own

and that's only the vocals!!