Name: Spellling and the Mystery School
Brand: Spellling

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SBR323LP

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Purple

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-08-25

Signed copies

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0843563164143

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Purple LP

SBR323CD

0843563164174

Artist

Spellling

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

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Sacred Bones Records

Sacred Bones Records is a New York label founded in 2007. With an impressive team including Taylor Brode as the general manager, [designer], [screen-printing artist], and [video maker], they have established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the music industry.

Their catalogue number scheme includes various formats such as LPs, mail-order exclusives, mystery 12", flexi-discs, tapes, mixtapes, CDs, reissues, remixes, and releases specifically for the Japanese market. Each format is easily identifiable by its unique catalogue number.

With their informative and authoritative tone of voice, Sacred Bones Records has become a go-to label for music enthusiasts looking for diverse and high-quality releases across different formats. Explore their extensive catalogue and discover new sounds that will captivate your ears.

Tia Cabral, aka. Spellling, is an artist hailing from Oakland, California. Her unique sound blends elements of experimental pop, art rock, and electronic music to create a mesmerizing sonic experience.
Inspired by a diverse range of influences including *death's dynamic shroud*, 'Lingua Ignota', and 'Julia Holter', Spellling's music transcends genre boundaries and pushes the boundaries of traditional song structures.
With her haunting vocals and ethereal melodies, Spellling has captivated audiences around the world. Her thought-provoking lyrics delve into themes of identity, spirituality, and personal growth.

Spellling, the moniker of the Bay Area experimental pop mastermind Chrystia Cabral, returns with Spellling and the Mystery School, a collection of richly envisioned new versions of songs from throughout her critically-acclaimed discography, via Sacred Bones. Recorded with her touring band (est. 2021), these reimagined studio tracks follow Cabral's spellbinding career — from her 2017 breakthrough debut Pantheon Of Me, to 2018's multidimensional synth-based project Mazy Fly, and her expansive third album, 2021's The Turning Wheel, breathing new life into the extravagant orchestrations she's written and produced entirely herself.&nbsp;

"With this album, I wanted to capture the ways that these songs have morphed; Cabral says of Spellling er the Mystery School. "They're like my children all grown up in a different stage of their lives, and I wanted to celebrate that:'&nbsp;

Throughout Spellling and the Mystery School, Cabral's hypnotizing voice is enveloped in a newly fleshed-out sonic universe of dreamy strings (Del Sol Quartet and Divya Farias), haunting piano (Jaren Feeley), driving trip-hop percussion (Patrick Shelley) and bass (Giulio Xavier Cetto), shredding electric guitar (Wyatt Overson), and drama-intensifying background vocals (Toya Wil-lock and Dharma Moon-Hunter).&nbsp;Overall, the album encapsulates the transportative Spellling live experience through which Cabral, with her idiosyncratic stage presence, conjures up a spiritual sense of communion and vulnerability among her audience. "I want people to feel like there's alchemy happening and to be aware of the magical parts of sound," she explains. "Like, this really did come out of thin air:'&nbsp;

Cabral plans to bring her otherworldly live set through a special performance with Atlas Obscura this summer, held at Children's Fairyland, a historical children's amusement park in Oakland that her own mother used to frequent as a child. There, she will unravel her mythical songs that inter-rogate ideas of self-concept and political history, aided by the backdrop that will no doubt bring out her music's other dimensions of playfulness, innocence, curiosity, and joy.

Spellling and the Mystery School

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