Alpinisms

by School of Seven Bells

Alpinisms cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 28 October 2008
  • Label: Ghostly International
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:40:14
  • Community rating: 3.14/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Simone Pace

Album Notes & Community Reviews

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

Descriptors: melodic, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Iamundernodisguise (3:47)
  2. Face to Face on High Places (4:40)
  3. Half Asleep (4:20)
  4. Wired for Light (4:57)
  5. For Kalaja Maria (4:17)
  6. White Elephant Coat (4:17)
  7. Connjur (4:40)
  8. Sempiternal/Aramanth (11:26)
  9. Chain (4:22)
  10. Prince of Peace (3:05)
  11. My Cabal (5:09)
  12. If I Had Glass Hands and Glass Feet (2:15)
  13. Wired for Light - Live Drum Version (3:50)
  14. Half Asleep - Alternate Version (4:31)
  15. White Elephant Coat - Early Demo Mix (3:52)
  16. Caldo - Live on Stereogum's Decomposed (3:00)
  17. Sempiternal/Amaranth - Alternate Version (11:13)
  18. Iamundernodisguise - Vocal Mix I (3:37)
  19. My Cabal - Early Mix 07 (3:48)
  20. Connjur - Alternate Version (4:36)
  21. For Kalaja Mari - Drum Outtake Mix (4:20)

Credits

  • Alejandra Deheza - performer [sviib is]
  • Benjamin Curtis - performer [sviib is]
  • Claudia Deheza - performer [sviib is]
  • Simone Pace - drums
  • Niki Randa - vocals [additional]

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