A Thread For School of Seven Bells Love!

it's actually going to be Meeting in the Aisle.

Then I would *know* they were just fucking with my head.

Subterranean Homesick Alien.... Headed Home For Marfa.

I've just realized that thanks to the Pulp show that same evening I'll need to miss their LA appearance this time around, fiddle. But they always seem to tour a couple of times through each album so I'll wait on the return...

Someone please teach me how to animate photoshop drawings into video, please.

http://genero.tv/schoolofsevenbells/

I'm not sure a month is enough time to hand animate 3 minutes of video, though.

Ah! By complete randomness I have just made contact with another local artist who knows Final Cut Pro. I think we're going to do this.

I am seeing them tonight! so pumped

So jealous, they're sounding so amazing on this tour.

(But if you speak to them, tell them to give me the prize, my video will be awesomes.)

I can't wait to see them again! July needs to hurry up...

They were p good but not amazing. They didn't play "Heart is Strange" or "The Night" (even though the latter was on the setlist taped to the stage) but it was still a blast to hear, like, half of Ghostory and Disconnect from Desire live.

They didn't play The Night?! That's odd. They didn't play Heart is Strange when I saw them in London either. Bye Bye Bye sounded great though.

i know i was rly bummed

Show tonight = righteous!

They need to obey the Foghat Rule and go with fourth album double-live. Their live sound is so unbelievably powerful right now.

Listening to the RSD single now and the Siouxsie cover is fun. Ben gets a convincingly Manzanera sound going out of his guitar.

However, the flip-side to this "When She Was Me" is mind-croggingly beautiful 4am post-party comedown/crash trance-motorik. It makes me think of being somewhere vaguely unfamiliar and you have to take a cab because you're both too drunk and too high and are desperate need of coffee and dessert so the cab driver takes you across the city to a cafe his brother owns instead of the great one down the avenue but it doesn't matter because you get to see the central city look like an electric lost city of cibola

why is this not available in the UK :(

Yes, this is patently unfair. Since they won't let us buy it legally, please to rip it and email it over to us. ;-)

Here's Siouxsie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAf6akprIBQ

WCC, check your email

Fuck, I have to listen to it again!

Seriously... I want to hear it echoing off of skyscrapers late at night.

awesomes! thanking you!

(Cornish broadband please do not let me down.)

So far Kiss Them For Me is sounding amazing...

I was going to try to walk to Nanjizal Bay before the rain hits, but I need to put on a kettle of tea and listen to these, first few seconds sound SO AMAZING. Just completely the right aesthetic for them.

WCC can you fwd this to me please!

I'm *trying* but Cornish broadband can only seem to do one thing at a time...

"Kiss Them For Me" is like whirling shoegaze Blondie. I love it!

got it WCC, thanks!

They really are determined to turn into the 00s Cocteau Twins, but without any of the bad yuppie coffee bar bits. This is just utterly blissful.

It is just the guitars and vocals from Cocteau Twins rolled over the top of Ibiza era New Order. Which has my teenage self just completely weeping with happiness.

I'm gonna put this on my headphones and go up Pedn-Men-Du and watch the storms roll in.

Argh you guys, I want to listen to this too!

check your fb roz!

thanks so much, lex!

Can I get a copy of this somehow? My store on RSD only got like two copies, and they were gone when I walked in the door. Email is phil (dot) p (dot) dennison at gmail.

Just as FYI, it is available electronically on iTunes in the US (which is where I got mine)

this version is a borefest. i'm not convinced by the vocals, way too robotic for me. she's doing a textbook reading of the main melody and belting out her lines like an automaton, not even a single vocal inflection of note.

oh, she's echoed to death during the harmonies for no apparent reason, gimme a break

lex, you are awesome, thanks!

I was going to buy a second copy 'cos the store I went to on RSD had like five left, but they were one-per-customer. I knew somebody here would want one.

Note to haters: please see thread title. Take your irrational and trivial hating elsewhere, pls. This thread is for love only. Kthxbye.

I got the RSD single but haven't listened yet. Does it come w a download?

Listened to the files lex forwarded to me and this is terrific! I could definitely listen to "When She Was Me" for hours.

Next time RSD rolls around, I kinda want them to cover Book Of Love.

I don't want to discourage any band from releasing fun, one-off singles... but this one isn't super great. The b-side is kind of cool, but I'm starting to think the loss of Claudia was a crippling blow.

Agreed that KTFM isn't the best thing, and pales in comparison to how utterly fantastic Ghostory is. I'll admit to totally hating it when it first emanated from the office stereo across the room, but I like it better listening on headphones for sure.

Regardless my love for them has fully blossomed with Ghostory - such a wonderfully listenable album from start to finish. I really don't think there's a dud track on the whole record. Plus the Cocteaus comparison is totally spot on - they have nailed those perfect harmonies. It's all sort of a late-80's/early-90's shoegazer melange, isn't it? Which is basically aural crack rock for me.

finally got a chance to listen to this on proper speakers and agree with the general sentiment - the cover is cute but "when she was me" is pure gorgeousness.

They just keep getting better and better imo. Ghostory is ROTY for me at this point.

What I like most about this band is that every album has at least two astonishing, career-justifying moments for me ("Iamundernodisguise", "White Elephant Coat", "Dust Devil", "Camarilla", "Low Times", "When You Sing").

But what about "Heart Is Strange"!

"Heart Is Strange" is a great song but there are at least three others on that album I like more (the two I mentioned plus "Windstorm")

ha i agree but with different songs

iamundernodisguise / prince of peace / heart is strange / ilu / low times / white wind

Siouxsie fans can be pretty protective even in 2012, judging by some of the iTunes comments.

And how many of them own Through The Looking Glass?

Also difficult to even imagine the song without the Schooly D beat hammering away..

When that and "Pearl" by Chapterhouse were released within months of each other there was plenty of 'wait hold on' moments going around, I recall. Perfect goth/gaze/hiphop crossover (key early moments being A R Kane via M/A/R/R/S and the MBV instrumental sampling "Security of the First World").

Hooray, they'll be playing a few blocks from me in October. Makes up for having to miss them for Pulp last month!