A Thread For School of Seven Bells Love!

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!!

album of the year?

^ probably

Streaming is working on the sviib.com site now btw.

this is a really pretty record. beautifully arranged....seems really shiny and glasslike. it just glides across the surface of the water

Really can't wait to hear the album tomorrow in full-quality CD sound, played loud. I've had this album streaming on near-repeat at work for the past week or however long it's been out. Probably heard it 20 times by now...

I get almost zero low-end sound on these pathetic headphones, so really just want to hear the full-scale production.

Also, this is just a gorgeous-looking band.

ok two tracks in and this already smokes the debut

THREE tracks in and it KILLS IT DEAD

OK, I'm old enough to get over it when people I hate like bands I love. But I am still childish enough to be annoyed when ILX0rs I hate start using screen names based off bands I love.

;_;

Because I pre-ordered it, I have to wait for the post to deliver it. Should have selected pick-up.

But I am still childish enough to be annoyed when ILX0rs I hate start using screen names based off bands I love.

hm?

A question which I don't expect an instant answer to, but please bear it in mind:

I've got the deluxe edition of the new CD that comes with an 'alternative' version of Alpinisms thrown in. Would be interested in reading opinions as to whether this differs much from the original album, which I've not heard.

is la petite mort a band?

it's a well-worn expression I used in a way that tickled me enough to turn into a screen name

in other news, this album is still very good, if not quite up with tracks 2, 3 and 4 (i.e. Lex OTM for now)

LJ i think she's talking about whiney

oh yeah haha

xxxxxpost

ah masonic c'mon it's whiney!

indie buzz band....77 reference...testicles...it's like asking a bird not to spread its wings and fly

every song has good elements to it! 'dial' is probably my favourite other than those 3. this album is much better than the debut, and it's also got its own sonic profile - finally this band is a thing, and although it's not music that i find viscerally thrilling, the songs are good enough to justify buying into them, luxuriating in their sprawl

I didn't know the deluxe edition came with an alternate version of Alpinisms! I just wanted the tarot cards.

Tarot cards? TAROT CARDS?!?!??! arrarghghghghgghhg Benjamin why do you do this to me. Can you get this version in the UK? This is deliberately to torture me and make me buy more than once copy since I had to pre-order the normal one to get into the secret gig.

This is not fair. I want those tarot cards.

mutter mutter mutter

I don't KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW which version I am getting. I checked the order and it says a signed copy. It does not say which version. I am gonna hope that this means that it's a special limited edition but if it isn't waah wah wah I'm gonna do a sad obsessive fan cry all the way home.

I want me those tarot cards.

Tarot cards, tarot phenomenon
Tarot Cards domestic HAaaaaands!!!

Relax, you only get seven tarot cards, not a full deck. You can't make predictions with them or anything.

I don't care how many of them there are, I still want them. Sheesh.

If it were my band, I would create an entire deck.

It's not like I haven't offered to do one for them!

Oh wait. I can't even finish mine own tarot deck beyond about seven cards so it's not like I would actually have the time to do a full one for someone else.

Is the deck, well, *them* as tarot cards? Or is it just interpretations of their favourites?

Something like this, I imagine:

http://witchcraft-supplies.com/tarot/jane.austen.tarot.deck.jpg

Um, the "tarot cards" are just the lyrics printed on cards.

Further digging re the bonus disc leads me to conclude it's the same bonus CD that came with the deluxe edition of Alpinisms. So you may already have it if you're a long-time SVIIB fan.

The dream is better.

Went home sick from work. The box was waiting. They are indeed lyric sheets with images on them. Lovely indeed. The box is beautiful, the album artwork looks a lot better as a screen print or whatever it is than as a gif.

(no bonus disc, though. But I didn't get the deluxe version of Alpinisms because I was unemployed and poor when it came out.)

Their pic, not mine, but looks like this:

http://twitpic.com/24pfi2

So so so glad I have the stream for now, none of the stores I stopped at this morning had this. Oddly enough, my local indie store "decided there wasn't enough good releases this week to get anything in until next week's shipment". I've said this in other threads, but if you are an independent record store and want to stay in business, STOCK RECORDS TO SELL. I mean, they didn't even have the new M.I.A. in which seems fairly stupid in a college town.

satisfied customer so far.

This album is even better than I was expecting on so many levels. It's so beautiful.

But the only thing that marrs it for me is I L U which has that really irritating sort of 80s soft rock rhythm section which so distracts me from the rest of the track that I can't concentrate on it. There's just something so "mid 80s John Hughes teen movie soundtrack" about that song, even despite the big woozy MBV guitar groans.

I'm sure that kind of thing has its fans, and it's time and place, but it is just jarring for me.

I really liked what I heard of this the other evening - my problem with the first was mostly the production, it sounded really flat and lifeless all the way through, this one sounds so much richer. Think the drums are a big part of that.

That's odd, because Benjamin was originally a drummer. I think part of why this sounds so different is that they got someone else to mix this - so the drums sound bigger and everything sounds clearer and more "in its right place" - but unfortunately it does make some songs have that 80s Teen Soundtrack problem. I'd love to hear an alternate "closet mix" of this album, mind you.

But I mean, when it's good, it's AMAZING. Which is most of it. Babelonia gets me every time, as does Joviann. This version of Camarilla makes me so so SOOOO happy.

Not a complaint, mind you but... there are times when it's mixed a little *too* politely for my dirty dronerock ways. There are definitely times that I want to tell them TURN THOSE BLOODY GUITARS UP! Give me NOOOIIIIZZZZEWEEEEEEE

But that could just be because I've become used to the way these songs sound live.

Yeah the drumming (drum programming?) is very 80s and the whole thing is very tastefully produced. The album brought to my mind All About Eve actually!

This is a very special bit of writing. The first two paragraphs appear to have come from a review of a different record all together.

http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15507/reviews/4140447

Wow.