School of Seven Bells' Unfinished Business

Right, 2009 is about to end and I personally don't like to leave things hanging and unfinished. What I'm about to finish is other people's business with me. I love SVIIB dearly, but guys, you suck...

Easy question: give us 2 music videos that you like and a short explanation why. Alley was the only one that got back to me, like... 6 months ago!

So this is too unofficial and unfinished to go in the website now, without further delays, here's the half-arsed team effort by School of Seven Bells and their cool video, 'My Cabal'.

Aljandra Deheza (vocals, guitar): 'My Cabal' was one of the first SVIIB songs ever to be imagined, conjured, carved out of churning moment in time. It's written as an exchange of letters between two characters - Cabal and Camarilla. The song is excavated artifacts from a tumultuous love affair between two symbiotic facets of one personality. We had gotten a ton of submissions for the video, but David Mullet's was the only one that addressed the idea of different perspectives as part of one entity. His partner pretty much invented this crazy stitching technique, that makes it look like the video was recorded in a single long shot, but in reality, they took video from a bunch of different angles and fused them together. Our friend Choltida let us borrow a bunch of wicked pieces from the SUPERSWEET Shop for the shoot. Thank yooouuuuuu, Choltida!!!! We shot on one of our only days off in a 71 date tour. Love love how it turned out. Now, if we could only convince them to shoot a whole tour...........

Fever Ray: When I Grow Up

Alejandra: Watching this video is such a deliciously jarring experience. What an amazing piece of art - EVERYTHING about it- the beautiful future primitive alien of a girl, the colors and the immediate grip of the scenery, THE SONG!! Karin Dreijer Andersson could make a mob of angry bees fly in formation, whilst caring a sleeping baby, with her voice if she wanted. It's that commanding.

Telepathe: So Fine

Alejandra: Two things here. The colors and the dance sequence. Wait,and Melissa and Busy. That's four. One of the things that I love about this video, is how each item in the shot, no matter how seemingly mundane (eggs,milk, half eaten fruit......) wears its colors so vibrantly. She's just making food, but it looks like a party. I love that whole idea of ritual/routine = ceremony/celebration. Then, the girls bust out into a dance routine. Why isn't there more of these things in videos? They make me so happy.



There you have it. Now I can end this year in peace!