Track Listing

1. Iamundernodisguise
2. Face To Face On High Places
3. Half Asleep
4. Wired For Light
5. For Kalaja Mari
6. White Elephant Coat
7. Connjur
8. Sempiternal/Amaranth
9. Chain
10. Prince Of Peace
11. My Cabal
12. Trance Figure
13. If I Had Glass Hands And Glass Feet

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4451 in Music
• Released on: 2009-02-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .18 pounds

CD Description
'Alpinisms' is the debut album from NY-based three-piece School Of Seven Bells. Comprised of ex-Secret Machines member Benjamin Curtis and identical twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza (formerly of On Air Library), the trio craft an album dense with layers of sonic sounds and textures. With an arrayinfluences from Shoegaze to Electronica - which recall bands such as Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, this is an intriguing and effortless pop record. Includes the singles 'My Cabal' and 'Iamundernodisguise'.

Customer Reviews

lovely Jubbly
At the risk of sounding like I haven't listened to this album I am going to stir the pot by saying that this album sounds like a more accessible Sigur Ros, with elements of Joy Division/New Order instrumentation mixed in with the ethereal female vocals.

Mad?

May be.

Lovely music?

Definitely!

Just love this!
I bought it because the guitarist used to be in the woefully underrated Secret Machines but it confounded my expectations entirely. It's a gorgeous prog pop album boasting a wildly eclectic range of rhythms, guitars and aural effects. The voices are beautiful, the lyrics, obscure and the songs meticulously constructed. While it is highly accessible (think Cocteau Twins for the most obvious antecedent) this is complex music that bears repetition. One of the albums of the year and all the better for taking me completely by surprise.

Another great album from planet Earth
4.6 stars. Two female vocalists, it sounds great, they compliment each other really well, plenty of excellent and groovy sounds. Stirring stuff, creates images, goes along, tracks 3, 7 and 9 in particular real stone grooves, a wide range of styles; witness Sempiternal/Amaranth at over 11 minutes long. The whole album's very good, very nice. Not a particularly insightful review, I appreciate, but I wanted this band to score well on the old Amazon rating system. If it helps, the beginning of White Elephant Coat sounds like it could be from 1970.0