The Six Parts Seven: Casually Smashed To Pieces coming in January
If abstract instrumental albums are your thing, then The Six Parts Seven's new LP will appeal. Casually Smashed to Pieces will be released on January 23, their shortest disc to date. The Six Parts Seven mixes in guitar, banjo, lap steel, rhodes piano, clarinet, cornet, and of course the bass and drums. Suicide Squeeze will be putting the album out, the band's fifth album with the independent label.
The band from Kent, Ohio spent two weeks in Seattle with Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Minus the Bear, Isis), recording at Studio Litho. They then tracked for fourteen hours at The Icehouse, a venue that used to be a large cold-storage facility. Large open rooms are great to record in, and the band blogged:
"The vast interior space bounced sound, and provided us with longest natural decay I have ever experienced. Imagine a trumpet, blowing a note, and that note hanging, moving about, ten seconds after it had been sent. Like a punch in the stomach: all that expanded air; listening in slow motion."
Expect to see tour dates lined up soon as The Six Parts Seven support their new album. Unfortunately the band doesn't have a website, so their MySpace page will suffice.
The Six Parts Seven – Stolen Moments (Casually Smashed To Pieces)
The Six Parts Seven – Falling Over Evening (Casually Smashed To Pieces)
The Six Parts Seven – What You Love You Must Love Now (Everywhere and Right Here)
The Six Parts Seven – A Blueprint of Something Never Finished (Everywhere and Right Here)
Sam Beam of Iron and Wine – Sleeping Diagonally (by The Six Parts Seven)
Six Parts Seven on:
iTunes // Emusic // Insound // Hype Machine // Elbo.ws