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It's as if Six Parts Seven withdrew completely from the music scene for a couple of years just so we could make a "lost notes from forgotten bands" joke upon their return. Success!

The Kent, Ohio collective recently hammered out its latest LP, Casually Smashed to Pieces, which is slated for a January 23 release via Suicide Squeeze on both CD and limited edition 12" formats. The album was recorded at Seattle's Studio Litho and Akron's Ice House, and produced by Six Parts Seven and Matt Bayles.

The label has honored the new with the old in the form of a free download-only EP, Six Parts Seven MP3EP. We recommend you click it, as those sneaky Squeezers squeezed in two Pieces songs in between the collection's otherwise previously released tracklist. And nothing's more satisfying than hearing something first and then bragging about it right off the bat, amirite?

You don't have to stop spinning new songs there. Six Parts Seven were kind enough to share another fresh number, "Night Behind the Stars", with us. The glistening instrumental, available exclusively below, lasts for a mere minute and fifteen seconds, and its title certainly captures its lullaby-esque nature.

Casually Smashed to Pieces tracklist:

01 Conversation Heart
02 Stolen Moments
03 Knock at My Door
04 Falling Over Evening
05 Awaiting Elemental Meltdown
06 Confusing Possibilities
07 Night behind the Stars
08 Everything Wrong Is Right Again

Six Parts Seven MP3EP tracklist:

01 Stolen Moments [from the forthcoming Casually Smashed to Pieces LP]
02 Falling Over Evening [from the forthcoming Casually Smashed to Pieces LP]
03 What You Love You Must Love Now [from the Everywhere and Right Here LP]
04 A Blueprint of Something Never Finished [from the Everywhere and Right Here LP]
05 Sleeping Diagonally (re.made by Sam Beam) [from the Lost Notes from Forgotten Songs remix compilation]
06 Oh Marriage (re.defined by Carissa's Weird) [from the Lost Notes from Forgotten Songs remix compilation]
07 Where Are the Timpani Heartbeats [from the Things Shaped in Passing LP]
08 Now Like Paragraphs [from the Things Shaped in Passing LP]