Personnel: Steven Clements (whistling, toy piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Tim Gerak (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Allen Karpinski (electric guitar, sampler); Keith Freund (cornet); Jay Karpinski (drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Steven Clements (piano).

Audio Mixer: Matt Bayles.

Recording information: Studio Litho, Seattle, WA; The Ice House, Akron, OH.

Arranger: Allen Karpinski.

The title CASUALLY SMASHED TO PIECES hints at the entropic approach to pop music that Kent, Ohio's the Six Parts Seven has adopted on this and their previous albums. Pretty but angular, catchy but scratchy, cinematic music for the art-house, the instrumentals here buzz with smarts and life, not unlike those by The Sea and Cake or Shudder to Think. It's no surprise that their compositions have been used as NPR's incidental music.