From School of Seven Bell’s latest album, Disconnect from Desire, comes the new single and video for ‘I L U.’ Ever a fan of acronyms, I’ll give you one guess what I L U stands for.
The video does perfect justice to a song that is a beautiful and sweeping landscape. Make sure to watch it in full screen mode. The band hits the road with Interpol in the New Year but has one stop in NYC with the Walkmen next month. Click through for tour dates and a download of ‘I L U.’
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The new video from Our Broken Garden for their song ‘Garden Grow’ (off their Golden Sea album out now) looks like if Michel Gondry teamed up with The Storyteller era Jim Henson- in a totally amazing sort of way. Not to mention that the song from the Danish band, made-up up of sometime Efterklang keyboardist Anna Bronsted on vox, Søren Bigum’s guitar/keyboards and Moogie Johnson’s bass, plus assorted musical friends, is an ethereal little masterpiece in itself.
MP3: Our Broken Garden – ‘Garden Grow’ (School of Seven Bells Remix)
Gosh, that sounds so dirty.
On October 26th, Lefse Records will be releasing a split 7″ of the two bands remixing each other’s songs. You can pre-order the vinyl album, which will include two songs, one from each band but you can preview the limited release below…
MP3: Active Child – ‘I’m In Your Church At Night (School of Seven Bells Remix)’
September 27th, School of Seven Bells will release their new single ‘Heart is Strange’ from their latest album, Disconnect from Desire. You can download the Phantogram remix below and expect a host of other remixes on the single. The band has also announced a short European tour for November.
NOVEMBER
3rd Paris, France La Boule Noire, Les Inrocks Festival
4th Koln, Germany Werkstatt
5th Ghent, Belgium Vooruit
6th Antwerp, Belgium De Nachten Festival
8th London, UK Heaven
10th Madrid, Spain El Sol
MP3: School of Seven Bells, Phantogram remix – ‘Heart is Strange’
Watch ‘Dust Devil’ below. Read my Q&A with School Of Seven Bells here.
Heart Is Strange will see daylight shortly. It features:
1. Heart Is Strange (Edit)
2. Heart Is Strange (Pantha Du Prince Mix)
3. I L U (Phantogram Mix)
4. Dust Devil (White Sea Mix)
Earlier today, I chatted with SVIIB’s Benjamin Curtis. Our full exchange:
1. What’s the inspiration behind Disconnect From Desire‘s cover?
We were having a conversation with Bryan Collins, who also did the artwork for Alpinisms, about symbols and iconography, which at the time we all happened to be interested in independently. We were discussing the personal, and emotional aspect to the new music, and Alley mentioned this idea of a “Sigil”, which is an interesting concept if you’re feeling brave and want to wade into the deep end of these sort of new age-y concepts. But, the concept is actually pretty powerful. The idea is to write a statement of intent, or something you want to put out into the universe, and then reduce the words down systematically to just a few letters. Then, you make a design out of what is left that isn’t recognizable from what it’s made from. Bryan was floored by the idea and went to town. I love it because it’s become a unique symbol that contains the words “Disconnect From Desire” and all the ideas behind it. Symbols and icons can be really fun like that.
2. Can you further explain the concept of ‘Babelonia’?
It seems to me it’s about a conflicted character. She seems to be realizing that the things she’s been taught her entire life, all the things she’s been depending on, are just stories she was told and aren’t the truth at all. Maybe she’s realizing she can only really depend on herself, which maybe is something all of us go through at some time or another.
Read the remainder of this interview AFTER THE JUMP…
Watch the brief feature below. Catch SO7B on their North American tour.
