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[fuckyeahsviib]

Happy birthday to the one and only, the lovely Benjamin Curtis. Can’t believe you would have been 40 years old today...

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Happy ninth birthday, Alpinisms. This performance of “Half Asleep” at KEXP is one of the best of that era.

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JESSIE CRAIG | DEAR DIARY

[fuckyeahsviib]

Happy birthday to our favourite twins, Alley and Claudia! Thanks @jessiecraigdeardiary for this great photo shoot.

[fuckyeahsviib]

❤️⚡️Happy birthday to the lovely Benjamin Curtis, who would’ve been 39 today. ❤️⚡️

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[portinfinite]

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Alejandra Deheza

[iheartmoosiq]

While I can’t help but feel sad that our School Of Seven Bells journey is drawing to an end, I also can’t marvel at the fact that the beloved New York band has been able to put out an album as splendorous as SVIIB despite the tragic passing of Benjamin Curtis. I suppose we’re rather fortunate that they’ve given us such a magnificent farewell gift. The new video for album track Signals is going to be one of their very last, and it’s a slick flashy, stylish captivating treat well worthy of Signals’ fearless whirring shoegaze and dreamy electro pop. School Of Seven Bells explains that the song is an ode to all the music they grew up loving as kids, the very music that inspired their own creativity processes. If you haven’t listened to SVIIB yet, you’re missing out, plus it’s the closing chapter of a spectacular career sure to resonate within our hearts forever more. SVIIB is out on iTunes.

[the-loon]

Love this every bit as much now as when it was first released.

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Alejandra Deheza

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Alejandra Deheza

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Alejandra Deheza

[musicwar]

Song of the Day: March 31, 2016

SVIIB, “On My Heart”

I’ve posted here about SVIIB before – back when Benjamin Curtis passed in late 2013.  It was shocking then and is still hard to wrap my head around now.

The fact that his band was able to actually write and record music this generous and open-hearted before he passed (while he was so sick) is almost incomprehensible, sort of like the rabbit-from-hat trick Bowie also recently pulled off.

Curtis was involved both creatively and romantically with the band’s only remaining member, Alejandra Deheza. This is an album full of the ghosts of that relationship – love, friendship, ups, downs – and so it makes perfect sense that the video that best represents their final work together is the visual manifestation of what it feels like to viscerally feel the trace effects of someone after you’ve lost them.  Are they shadows, ravens, angels, blurry versions of the people they were when they were still alive? We all have our own answers for those questions, I guess.

I love music so sad and majestic that it actually makes you glad to be alive. It’s periodically good to realize that beautiful melodies and lyrics can still reduce you to inexplicable tears.  I can’t live in that space forever, but I can sure enjoy it for the length of a well-crafted album. 

“With me your love’s safe.” Is there a cooler, more affirmative thing you can tell someone while they’re still alive to hear it? (CdB)

[s0nnymewzik]

School of Seven Bells have released a music video for,“Ablaze”, which is the opening track from their fourth and final album, SVIIB.

Directed By: Alan Del Rio Ortiz.

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[beardedgentlemenmusic]

The death of School of Seven Bells’ Benjamin Curtis and the band’s last album, SVIIB is not a door closing on School of Seven Bells – it’s a door opening into the rest of Alejandra Deheza’s life and career. - @dryvetyme

[thekylemeredith]

Talking SVIIB withSchool of Seven Bells

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The music video for, “On My Heart”, taken from School Of Seven Bells self-titled fourth and final album, SVIIB.

Directed by American Millennial & Noah Kentis

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