Alpinisms

by School of Seven Bells

Alpinisms cover art

Formed by ex-Secret Machines guitarist Benjamin Curtis and the Deheza twin sisters, this debut album is a mesmerizing hybrid of tribal percussion and ethereal pop. The record buries incredibly sweet, interlocking female vocal harmonies under massive layers of shoegaze guitar noise and syncopated electronic drum loops. It successfully captured the mystical, haze-drenched aesthetics of the late-2000s Brooklyn music scene.

Genres

  • Indie Pop
  • Indietronica

Tracklist

  1. Iamundernodisguise
  2. Face to Face on High Places
  3. Half Asleep
  4. Wired for Light
  5. For Kalaja Maria
  6. White Elephant Coat
  7. Connjur
  8. Sempiternal/Aramanth
  9. Chain
  10. Prince of Peace
  11. My Cabal
  12. If I Had Glass Hands and Glass Feet
  13. Wired for Light - Live Drum Version
  14. Half Asleep - Alternate Version
  15. White Elephant Coat - Early Demo Mix
  16. Caldo - Live on Stereogum's Decomposed
  17. Sempiternal/Amaranth - Alternate Version
  18. Iamundernodisguise - Vocal Mix I
  19. My Cabal - Early Mix 07
  20. Connjur - Alternate Version
  21. For Kalaja Mari - Drum Outtake Mix