Pandabear 414 Posted March 14, 2011 School of Seven Bells (often just SVIIB) is a band formed by Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines, together with identical twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, formerly of On!Air!Library!. The band is named after the School of the Seven Bells, a mythical South American pickpocket training academy. On October 12, 2010, it was announced via their Facebook page that Claudia Deheza had left the band due to personal reasons. School of Seven Bells’ music is full of tensions—Curtis’ gentle guitars wrap around jagged beats; silky vocals hide behind grumpy, alien synthesizers—but the resulting songs are effortlessly cohesive, and insidiously catchy. Elements of dream-pop, Afrobeat, IDM, and 4AD’s gauzier moments provide a constantly shifting frame for the Dehezas’ lyrics, which they write as mysterious missives between the School’s imaginary seven members. School of Seven Bells - Windstorm jYBigw9c_vc I saw these guys live a while ago and had a total head trip. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
