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School of Seven Bells wanted to do a music video for their most recent single, so they went to Genero, which is a Kickstarter-esque website that puts out the call for filmmakers to step up and try their hand at various projects. The entry the band liked the best was this one.

Here's The Night.

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Incredible song and a gorgeously evocative video to go with it.

Here's the new single from School of Seven Bells.

This is Reappear.

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I posted this song as an audio clip a while back, but given that there's now a video for it, that I love the song, and that the full album hits iTunes today, I figured I'd bring it back.

Here's the new single from the always awesome School of Seven Bells.

This is Lafaye.

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The new School of Seven Bells album, Ghostory, hits outlets on February 28th.

If you've got any taste at all, that's all I should have to say to get you really, really excited.

Here's the first single from the record -- Lafaye.

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When guitarist Ben Curtis left one of my favorite unsung bands on earth -- the Secret Machines -- I was thoroughly confused, if for no other reason than the fact that he was leaving behind his brother, singer Brandon Curtis. But when he formed School of Seven Bells with, ironically, twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza -- and I heard the kind of music they were making -- all my concern was put to rest.

Now a duo, SVIIB make gloriously gorgeous dream-pop -- as evidenced by this song. Both it and the video for it are indescribably passionate, in the best possible way.

Here's I L U.