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Casually Smashed to Pieces (Dig)

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Most instrumental bands pull the listener in with the "silence to violence" scheme, but Six parts seven have created a happy medium here. Music for all..well, most moods. The lap steel guitar has more of a presence on this album than with their older stuff, and the trumpet is introduced on a track or two. Think American football and Stars of the lid with some folk and alt-country influences mixed in. Truly a moving album and 6P7's best yet. Standout tracks: "Conversation heart", "Falling over evening" and "Night behind the stars".

This is an album to just chill out to. Don't expect dramatic swells or intense instrumental interludes. "Casually Smashed to Pieces" is more for a Sunday afternoon backyard or porch party. Even though the tracks are solely instrumental and all relatively similar, you won't find yourself bored by listening to it at any point.

Smooth, meandering, intricate, happy, twilight, nighttime, Vikings.

Really fulfilling Cd. I always feel really good and relaxed when i listen to it.

The missing word to the title is Twang:Casually Smashed to Pieces. and lets put it this way, every possible aspect of twang is hammer smashed by the guy on the cover into the most enjoyable hypnotic and musically talented tunes you will ever here. Rivaling The Mercury Program in its WOW factor, this is the trance of instrumental rock. YOU DONT NEED COFFEE TO ENJOY THIS RECORD,YOU DONT NEED GLASSES TO ENJOY THIS RECORD, AND YOU DONT NEED A BREAK-UP TO ENJOY THIS RECORD. As a matter of fact the only thing you do need is a comfortable bed becuase as soon as you put it in, you will be casually smashing your butt on it. Enjoy!

A diversion . . . a necessary side-step . . . a challenge to mentally mix it up a bit / a momentary alternative persona.
Not an effort to be unapplauded, but it noticeably and sorely misses its intended target: Forging a bit of Americana into their previously well-claimed efforts of progressive / instrumental / avant-garde / layered pieces lacks any memorable "punch". Easily forgetable, and wouldn't be played much by one that has come to embrace the oh-so-creative, deep, and intellectual efforts so rich in both "Things Shaped in Passing" and "The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore". I strongly suspect that they got the itch for this ("Casually Smashed to Pieces") well scratched and purged from their system.