Things Shaped in Passing is the third studio album from Ohio

Ohio

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 post-rock

Post-rock

Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...

 band The Six Parts Seven

The Six Parts Seven

The Six Parts Seven was an American post-rock band formerly based in Kent, Ohio. The band was founded in 1995 by brothers Allen and Jay Karpinski , who had earlier played with Old Hearts Club, a band of similar style...

. It was released August 31, 2004 and is their first release on their label, Suicide Squeeze

Suicide squeeze

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. It includes the songs 'Spaces Between Days (Parts 3 & 4)' with parts 1 and 2 on their previous studio album, Silence Magnifies Sound.

The album artwork was created by Michael Loderstedt. According to the CD's liner notes

Liner notes

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, the song 'Now Like Photographs' was inspired Ange Leccia

Ange Leccia

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's works as well as Larry Levis

Larry Levis

Larry Patrick Levis was an American poet.-Youth and Education:Larry Levis was born the son of a grape grower; he grew up driving a tractor, picking grapes, and pruning vines of Selma, California, a small fruit-growing town in the San Joaquin Valley...

' writing.
According to the band's MySpace

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blog, this is the first album bandmates James Haas and Steve Clements record on, on lap-steel & guitar, and piano, respectively.

Track listing

1. "Where Are the Timpani Heartbeats?" – 5:28
2. "Spaces Between Days (Part 3)" – 2:26
3. "Spaces Between Days (Part 4)" – 3:17
4. "Sleeping Diagonally" – 5:58
5. "Cold Things Never Catch Fire" – 6:50
6. "Seems Like Most Everything Used to be Something Else" – 4:07
7. "Now Like Photographs" - 4:21
8. "The Want and the Waiting" - 8:50

Personnel

Allen Karpinski - guitars, samples, arrangements, steel finger slide (track 4)

Jay Karpinski - drum kit

Brad Visker - bass guitar

Tim Gerak - guitars, samples

James Haas - lap steel guitar, guitar, ebow (track 5)

Steve Clements - grand piano