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Reviews

Black Moth Super Rainbow + School of Seven Bells: 20 May 2009 - Chicago

By Chris Catania

Love and pain, ecstasy and horror, joyful jubilation and perpetual elation -- it’s all in a night’s work for Black Moth Super Rainbow. [24 June 2009]

School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms

By Ron Hart

Luminaries from the early '00s New York City rock boom convene to create something unlike anything you have ever quite heard come out of the five boroughs. [1 December 2008]

By Mike Newmark

Even when not all of School of Seven Bells' experiments work, they hit the dream-pop sweet spot with enough frequency to make their debut recording worthwhile. [26 November 2008]