The band's second album, "Disconnect from Desire" was released in July 2010. It was hailed by Pitchfork. During the accompanying tour, they covered the Siouxsie and the Banshees song "Kiss Them for Me". The band was awarded International Bet of the Year (Aposta Internacional) at the 2010 MTV Video Music Brasil, and in October, Claudia Deheza left the band for "personal reasons". On February 28, 2012, they released "Ghostory", their third studio album and first as a duo. It included the singles "The Night", "Lafaye" and "Scavenger". On November 13, 2012, the EP "Put Your Sad Down" was released. In February 2013, Curtis was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma after several weeks of displaying symptoms. Curtis did not recover and died on December 29, 2013 at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The last piece of music produced by Curtis before his death, a cover of Joey Ramone's "I Got Knocked Down (But I’ll Get Up)", was made available in June 2014. The group's fourth album, "SVIIB", completed after Curtis's death, was released in February 2016, preceded by a single, "Open Your Eyes". School of Seven Bells' music was usually described as indie rock, dream pop, shoegaze and electronic. Their sound was described as dreamy and ethereal, and the lyrics as abstract. According to Benjamin Curtis, SVIIB was inspired by "everything from Kraftwerk, Wire, Beyoncé, New Order, Blonde Redhead, to Section 25 comes to mind, along with singers like Joni Mitchell and Robert Wyatt. We're huge fans of pop, too, mainly because we're huge fans of smart songwriting". When touring, SVIIB utilized additional members including bassists James Elliott and Daniel Duemer; drummers Zachary Shigeto Saginaw (now more widely known for his work as the electronic musician Shigeto), Joe Stickney (Bear in Heaven) and Christopher Colley; and keyboardist/backing vocalist Allie Alvarado.