Labels: Suicide Squeeze
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Post rock isn’t just for wine supping, volvo driving, coffee table owning goobers, luckily some bands buck the trend. Six Parts Seven simply impress me, I guess it’s because their pretty, gently winding guitar play evokes late 90s indie / emo in the same way that Tristeza once did. SPS have their roots in that scene anyway, featuring folks involved in Old Hearts Club, so perhaps it is no surprise that they manage this with a marked amount of aplomb. I am quite surprised to discover we have never actually reviewed Six Parts Seven on the C, given their musical style and hefty wedge of experience (5 studio LPs according to Wikipedia, so this’ll be their 24th album then).
The eight songs on this LP nudge by, with a whole plethora of other instruments involved in the shenanigans, from horns to vibraphones (ARGH, ALOHA! BAD VIBES!) and several more in between. It’s all highly enjoyable, songs don’t outstay their welcome or become ponderously pretentious and over-wrought, things build up from time to time but hitting the crescendo isn’t the be all and end all. Here is a band that is definitely on top of their game, and I would recommend this to anyone who wants to drift off and enjoy instrumental guitar music that lacks delusions of grandeur. Sweet LP.