School of Seven Bells

ok, so every once in a while i go on a mission: find a new favorite band. this quest, taken up at least twice a year, has proven successful time and time again. here is a list of past winners:

the arcade fire
iron & wine
yeasayer
bon iver
thao nguyen
lewis and clarke
lata mangeshkar

the list goes on and on. well, yesterday, the mission struck. a fire was lit in my heart, and i wasn't going to stop searching the internet until i found something worthy of listening to non-stop for the next several months. thankfully, the universe responded in kind with School of Seven Bells. upon first listening to "Half Asleep" on my dinky little headphones in the library, i was rather impressed. i thought, "wow, maybe these guys are really good." later in the nite, i found myself in keith's room, and we began sharing music. it wasn't long until i brought up School of Seven Bells. we proceeded to listen to "Half Asleep" on his most excellent computer speakers at top volume, and all of a sudden, everything made sense: this is it. these guys are it.

so, if you listen to this music once and you go, "eh, kind of repetitive, a little simple, a little trippy," i understand. but do yourself a favor and mellow out using whatever techniques you deem necessary and put on Seven Bells at top volume with good speakers and try to tell me your life didn't just change a little. the two female vocalists are twins....twins i tell you! they found Benjamin Curtis (any relation to JE?) by watching him play on stage. they fell in love with his playing and he fell in love with their singing (who can blame him).

the last song, "iamundernodisguise," is their new single...and it is arguably their best song!!! they are opening for Black Moth Super Rainbow on May 21 in Chicago!!!! we gotta go!!! it's going to be awesome!!! and it's only 12 bucks!!! caitlin, can me and some friends crash at your place?

oh, and read the lyrics. and visit their myspace page for three other incredible tracks called "Prince of Peace," "TranceFigure," and "Chain." they are all incredible:

http://www.myspace.com/schoolofsevenbells

ok. enough jibber jabber.....listen to the music!

in love,
ge



Lyrics to Half Asleep:

Sometimes I go whole days
listening bored, half sleep
I won't say anything
that's worth a thing to me
One day, suddenly, time
took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly

What begins as an unguarded
train of thoughts slowly can become
an addiction to the slumber
of disconnection and the resonance
of memory that no longer has a shape
but keeps you numb through
the hours tills gone is another day

Be aware, my darling
these things I say I mean
are just traces of something
I long to feel again
I see our time expand
in the air almost forcibly,
spreading thinner till it dissolves completely



Lyrics to connjur:

How does someone with nothing end
up with so much to show for it
All kinds of people, places, and things
Your cheap doormats and decorations
And to think it was all just a dream
One fantastic hallucination

Keep on polishing your golden
wall of trophies and self portraits
We'll just smile and wait till he knocks off
your designer rose colored glasses
And you'll see what we see - nothing but
old dust, peeled paint, and broken glasses

A simple imprint, imagine
I was the hill we walked
I was the walk that swung from your leg
I was your words that cast in my thoughts
Those who say dream are just dreams
say words end when you can't hear them
Listen closely as they fade
and witness the worlds construction



Lyrics to My Cabal:

My cabal, he sleeps outside
pulling the shadows over the moonlight
My cabal, won't you come inside
Forget the darkness if just for one night

Possibilities
baited with personal inconvenience
Every time he feels
that baited resistance tugging at his sleeve
he struggles to find who
he struggles to see why
He's weary with a weight
so often confused with authority,
but who's?

He sleeps outside
pulling the shadows over the moonlight

I want to know why
paper is so different
And what happens once these
promises incubated hit the air
I want to know why the
air becomes so thick and impenetrable
and why another set of rules apply, why?

My cabal, he sleeps outside
pulling the shadows over the moonlight
My cabal, won't you come inside
Forget the darkness if just for night



Lyrics to iamundernodisguise:

I am neither breather nor speaker
I am neither walker nor sleeper
I am neither sister brother son nor daughter
Solely in my chest is my heart a drum of water

I am under no disguise