School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms

Ok, so this actually came out in october of last year but it's very good, one of the best releases of 2008 for sure. It's basically electronic tinged shoegaze/dream pop with the girl who did the vocals on A Cloud Mireya and then her sister sharing vocals and a guy from Secret Machines doing the instrumentation. Really good, catchy pop music.

Uneven, but there are some real standout tracks that make this worth listening to. I really like the track Half Asleep. It had a huge replay value for me for a few weeks.

Plus it has a cool cover

I almost bought this the other day. I'll check it out.

i like it so much that i wrote an extremely positive review of it!

http://themusiclobby.com/shoegaze/school-o...ostly-2008.html

Yeah I pretty much dig anything with teh Deheza's. This isn't as good as On!Air!Library! or A Cloud Mireya, but it's good no doubt.

very good album. iamundernodisguise is awesome. i also really like half asleep, chain, and connjur.. they performed in atlanta recently and i decided not to go, but i should have.

yeah this is decent

Connjur is really good!

great use of autotune (I think?) in Chain :laughing:

sorry for three posts in a row but this stuff is pretty great actually

This one is a real grower too. I liked it at first, but now I absolutely love it. Def in the top 3 for ghostly in 2008. Quite interesting to hear those two lovely voices over some electronic/rock goodness.

  Berk said:

great use of autotune (I think?) in Chain :laughing:

they're awesome enough, as singers, that i wasn't sure if it was really them, or if there's some sort of vocoder/autotune going on

  playbynumbers said:

  Berk said:

great use of autotune (I think?) in Chain :laughing:

 

 

 

they're awesome enough, as singers, that i wasn't sure if it was really them, or if there's some sort of vocoder/autotune going on

Yeah, I really love their voices, the music reminds me of a sort of more energetic Broadcast.

Autotune or not, I like the feel the effect gives to this track, it really fits and is being used in quite an original way.

wow, love that cover !

Only heard the track they did with prefuse 73... I'm gonna check this out... thanks for the heads up, it's never too late.

Yeah, I was skeptical but this album is really really good. The art is lush as well, obviously