School Of Seven Bells

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4...according to our Ant on Thu 23 Oct, 2008.

Moving swiftly on to this here School of Seven Bells 7" on Ghostly. 'Half Asleep' is the state that this tune makes me feel, it has a dreamy vibe to it that I quite like. On second spin it's a decent pop tune. Phil has mentioned that bits of it remind him of Prefuse 73 and Brian reckons if you liked the last stuff the Cocteau Twins did then you'll more than likely dig this. He then proceeds to drop a massive death egg in the office that Brett has compared to the smell of a Cornish pasty that's been lying around for three weeks. The filth I have to deal with while simply trying to do my job. I depair. Phil says he smells like a human kebab. There really is no hope...

With 7” single Half Asleep/Caldo, School of Seven Bells stylishly split the difference
between shoegazing introspection and stargazing dream pop. “Half Asleep” starts with a
compact, propulsive throb and gradually expands outward, adding layers of milky-blue
synthesizer, bottomless guitar from Benjamin Curtis, and the angelic, harmonized coos of
sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza—it’s a potent combination of earthbound noise and
weightless beauty, found at the height of a mountaintop. Eerie B-side “Caldo” spins a
simple melody (sung in English and Spanish) into a medieval hymn from another planet.
Half Asleep/Caldo is a taste of School of Seven Bells’ full-length, Alpinisms.

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