The Six Parts Seven

Heare ye...

Yes, they have been around awhile. Their latest offering, Casually Smashed to Pieces, shines with the shiny sheen of a blackoil-polished war shield, also prominently featured in the cover art.

Unlike most purely instrumental bands, the Six Parts Seven avoid the old "lure 'em in with silence, then crescendo to mayhem" scheme a-la Mogwai, Silver Mount Zion, Explosions in the Sky (all of whom I enjoy as well).

I am simply satisfied that the pedal lap steel comes forth more prominently on this album.

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Behold

These are good songs. For some I haven't yet put forth the effort needed to delving deeper or, metaphorically speaking, I have yet to spelunk their musical cave to potentially unearth any other gems.

Sadly, for others this is the only shining nugget we're getting, and the weeding process was a bit painful. But I am a firm believer, that every band has at least one good song in them...and by "every band" I really only mean "many"--many bands have at least one good song in them....some, I mean some.

But for the most part these songs fit in the category of the former, not the latter.

Ferris Wheel--Carlon

Will the Violins Be Playing?--The Last Days of April

That Summer, At Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy--The Twilight Sad

The Loving Sounds of Static--Mobius Band

Dustbowl--Horse Feathers

Stadiums And Shrines II--Sunset Rubdown

A Sign of Life--Kunek

Radical Face

Ben Cooper is perhaps the most talented man recording in the shed behind his parents house.

Glory

Welcome Home

Wrapped in Piano Strings

These songs will be on an album called Ghost (Dig) due out March 20th. If these songs are any inkling of what is next, then a round of a billowing huzzahs are in tall order.

He also recorded with Alex Kane, and went by the Electric Presidents, another fine band.