"When You Sing" by School of Seven Bells

Ever since my post a few days ago about the new School of Seven Bells release, I have been on a School of Seven Bells kick. And I have been returning again and again to their amazing song "When You Sing" from their album "Ghostory." It starts in a dreamy, ambient space but launches into a driving, powerful trajectory while still retaining a gauzy drone--and the contrast between the dynamic rhythm and Alejandra Dehaza's floating, smooth, long tones is delicious.

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"Ablaze," "On My Heart" and "Open Your Eyes" by School of Seven Bells

OH. MY. GOD. I love School of Seven Bells and I am thrilled they are releasing a new album called "SVIIB" on February 26th, 2016. I have missed hearing the gloriously compelling, dreamy, layered sounds and the gorgeous voice of Alejandra Dehaza. But the new album is released in the dark shadow of the death of her bandmate-friend-partner Benjamin Curtis who sadly passed away at the waaaaaaay-too-young age of 35 from cancer. The album was recorded in 2012, with all of Curtis' work completed. He died in 2013, and Dehaza finished the album alone; after three years, she is finally ready to release the end result. The thought of that makes me quite emotional.

So School of Seven Bells is now a solo act and while Dehaza will certainly continue to make music, we wonder if it will be under the School of Seven Bells name...

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Currently listening to...

...the gorgeous dream-pop of "Lafaye" by School of Seven Bells. The sound is imperative and urgent yet amorphous and ethereal.

This song comes from "Ghostory," their third release. Billed as a concept album about a young woman named Lafaye and the ghosts that surround her life, lead singer Alejandra Dehaza says, "Everyone has ghosts... They’re every love you’ve ever had, every hurt, every betrayal, every heartbreak. They follow you, stay with you." The enigmatic, dreamy video seems to support this concept very well. It is full of yearning, loss, longing and what seem to be memories in a house that once held meaning and life...

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