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you can believe in what you see

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Day 39: Babelonia

“You are listening to a Vagrant Records advanced promotional stream.” Well, no shit, Sherlock, I thought sometime in May 2010, freaking out in my room at uni as Babelonia came flooding through the speakers. My friends didn’t get it. “What’s with all the ‘eeeee’s?” They said. “It’s School of Seven Bells. It’s really good,” I said.

I went to Latitude with a friend that year, firstly because Wild Beasts were playing there. When SVIIB and Mara Carlyle were added to the bill, it sealed the deal. And so it was there that I first saw SVIIB, in the dark Word Magazine tent on a hot Saturday afternoon in July, and enjoyed half an hour of Disconnect-heavy goodness. The album was days old at that point, and everything was shiny and new, and Claudia was still in the band. Looking back, it seems like a different time. Here are some pictures of the set, and here’s the Supersweet backstage video.

Babelonia seems to know more than she can actually comprehend, like she’s just had an information overload. She builds herself from the ground up, taking the fractures and making them into something concrete. She’s able to take the sun’s weight and hide with the moon, and appears to be self-reliant (and self-governing), like she’s nature personified. But it’s portrayed as a lonely life; she doesn’t seem to encounter anyone. For all the power she has, and the long stretch of time to go with it, could she find someone to share it with? The mythology of the seven bells seems to have this common thread where the characters are on a solitary quest, unable to search for others until they’ve searched for themselves.

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This hits every possible spot.

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School Of Seven Bells - Babelonia   

She is the fractured one sewn From sums of fractured time Her heart speaks a fractured tongue Her life is fractured design She shares the weight of the sun A love that burns alone Leaving their hearts with no one Claiming no other their own Babelonia It's a wonder You can believe In what you see Babelonia Divided love Childhood history Adult's mystery She is her prophet and god She is the comfort she seeks She is a thousand wires sewn Through the outcome she receives They share the cloak of the moon Under the darkened sky They leave their secrets to roam In the forgiveness of night Babelonia It's a wonder You can believe In what you see Babelonia Divided love Childhood history Adult's mystery