School of Seven Bells, Reappearing

Reappear makes the School of Seven Bells argument for you without requiring any explanation. Alejandra Deheza’s voice gets processed into something barely human—not cold exactly, more like the idea of warmth passed through glass—and Benjamin Curtis’s production wraps around it until the song feels less heard than absorbed. Their debut Alpinisms works best at the threshold between paying attention and not, which is probably not a coincidence. Dream pop that actually earns the word dream.