Alejandra deheza biography sampler

Twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza have faces built for film and pipes built for dreamy electronica. "Half Asleep," the new video from their band, School of Seven Bells, exploits both.

Along with ex-Secret Machines soundtracker Ben Curtis, the twins formed School of Seven Bells in 2007. The group quickly impressed with last year's debut, Alpinisms, which drew comparisons to past greats like Seefeel, Medicine and My Bloody Valentine. On Tuesday, Ghostly International will follow up on that success by releasing the trio's latest track, "Iamundernodisguise," on 7-inch vinyl and digital download.

Meanwhile, the band is currently on the road with Fujiya and Miyagi, starting with Minneapolis on Wednesday and wrapping in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 21. After that, School of Seven Bells takes off on its own for a European jaunt.

Take a peek at the video for "Half Asleep," which premiered Wednesday, for a musical primer on what Curtis and the

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Photo by Clarke Tolton/Justin Hollar

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear," C.S. Lewis wrote in his 1961 book A Grief Observed, a collection of observations about the death of his wife. Joan Didion tackled the same topic—the loss of a spouse—in 2005’s The Year of Magical Thinking. "Grief has no distance," Didion wrote. "Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life."

For as universal as grief is, we don’t hear the word "elegy"—that musical lament to the dead, which casts a longer shadow over music history than even romantic love songs—very often. Yet the examples have always been there, existing and thriving still. The most popular ones seems to suggest you don’t pour grief on thick: The lightest of touches in elegies—like Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s tribute to the late Paul Walker with last year’s "See You Again"—tend to pla

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Benjamin Curtis of School of Seven Bells, Secret Machines Dead at 35

Benjamin Curtis, the former Secret Machines guitarist and Tripping Daisy drummer who most recently made up half of the dream-pop duo School of sju Bells, died at age 35 gods night in New York City. He had been battling T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma, a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and the website Oklahoma Rock, which covers musicians from Curtis’s home state, reports he was getting treatment at the city’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The group later confirmed Curtis’s death via its Facebook.

School of Seven Bells Drift Through ‘Lafaye’

“We can’t thank all of you who supported him and his music through the years enough,” the grupp wrote in a statement on its Facebook page. “You made it possible for all of us, and for him, to see how truly loved he was and how many lives he had touched through his music by your gestures. We will all miss this i