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Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
is the project of Chicago-based singer-songwriter Owen Ashworth.
He debuted with the cassette
Answering Machine Music (1999 - Tomlab, 2002),
the CD Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway cars (Tomlab, 2001),
perhaps his best orchestration for voice and electronics (The Subway Home),
and Twinkle Echo (Tomlab, 2003), his storytelling peak (Toby Take A Bow, Roberta C),
that delivered literate lo-fi pop performed with drum-machine and Casiotone keyboards.
Etiquette (Tomlab, 2006) introduced a mature songwriter, a fuller sound
and a real band. The counterpoint of electronic/digital instruments and
acoustic/electric instruments has the curious effect of juxtaposing a slightly futuristic vision and a slightly retro vision. The contrast lends the song
a unitary theme. The protagonist of Ashworth is little more than the ordinary
teenager of rock'n'roll but his arrangements squeeze his persona between
the urban and the rural, the tradition and progress.
The anxiety that the (tentative) lyrics cannot deliver in
Young Shields, Cold White Christmas,
Scattered Pearls,Nashville Parthenon,
I Love Creedence,
is easily demonstrated by the music.
Vs. Children (Tomlab, 2009) is Ashworth's sophomore album.
Advance Base Battery Life (Tomlab, 2009) collects singles and rarities released from 2005 to 2008.
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