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Album: Alpinisms (2008)
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  • School of Seven Bells is a three-piece dream pop band formed by Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines, together with identical twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza. Their sound has been described as dreamy and ethereal, and the lyrics as abstract. In this song from their debut album, Alpinisms. Alejandra Deheza writes about her interest in lucid dreaming. "I can be in a dream and know that I'm dreaming," Deheza explained in an interview on National Public Radio (NPR), "so I'll know that I can pretty much make anything happen. I'll know that everything that's there is out of my head, so I can make somebody appear, or if I want to go somewhere else, I can do that, too. It's pretty much having control of what you see."
  • Benjamin Curtis passed away on December 29, 2013 aged 35. The musician had been battling T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma, a form of cancer, since the beginning of the year.

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