Insound Staff Pick - 2009! This is the fourth album by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Owen Ashworth, still one of the most talented songwriters working in independent music today, and his intimate character studies are finally getting the production they deserve. Instead of limiting the arrangements to battery powered electronics and the occasional contributions from friends, Ashworth has expanded his bedroom recording project into a small orchestra of pianos, organs, strings, flutes, pedal stee   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2009! This is the fourth album by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Owen Ashworth, still one of the most talented songwriters working in independent music today, and his intimate character studies are finally getting the production they deserve. Instead of limiting the arrangements to battery powered electronics and the occasional contributions from friends, Ashworth has expanded his bedroom recording project into a small orchestra of pianos, organs, strings, flute   [ read more ]

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RESTOCK. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (CFTPA) rocks the world! CFTPA makes songs made up, sung, and played by Owen Ashworth. His first release on Tomlab, "Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars," gained a lot of attention in the alternative press with references including Moldy Peaches, Mountain Goats, Smog, Silver Jews, Young Marble Giants, and Will Oldham. CFTPA's self-released debut album, "Answering Machine Music," which has been hard to find, is now available in an expanded version and feature   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2009! Hot on the heels of the recently released singles and rarities compilation Advance Base Battery Life comes Vs. Children, the fifth album proper by Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. Vs. Children continues the trajectory of 2006's Etiquette, which showed singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth straying from the strictly electronic instrumentation of his earlier recordings. In fact, Vs. Children is an album decidedly absent of the ba   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. From Kraftwerk to Leonard Cohen, The Smiths to Suicide, and Pet Shop Boys to Smog, Chicago's one-man musical army Owen Ashworth - a.k.a. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - has been bracketed with all manner of illustrious names in the course of his eleven year career. But in collecting the 7-inch split-singles and compilation tracks he released from 2004-7 (all but two of them on CD for the first time), Advance Base Battery Life provides compelling evidence of the singular nature of th   [ read more ]

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Insound Staff Pick - 2009! Hot on the heels of the recently released singles and rarities compilation Advance Base Battery Life comes Vs. Children, the fifth album proper by Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. Vs. Children continues the trajectory of 2006's Etiquette, which showed singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth straying from the strictly electronic instrumentation of his earlier recordings. In fact, Vs. Children is an album decidedly absent of the battery-powered k   [ read more ]

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From Kraftwerk to Leonard Cohen, The Smiths to Suicide, and Pet Shop Boys to Smog, Chicago's one-man musical army Owen Ashworth - a.k.a. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - has been bracketed with all manner of illustrious names in the course of his eleven year career. But in collecting the 7-inch split-singles and compilation tracks he released from 2004-7 (all but two of them on CD for the first time), Advance Base Battery Life provides compelling evidence of the singular nature of this industrious   [ read more ]

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Hot on the heels of the recently released singles and rarities compilation Advance Base Battery Life comes Vs. Children, the fifth album proper by Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. Vs. Children continues the trajectory of 2006's Etiquette, which showed singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth straying from the strictly electronic instrumentation of his earlier recordings. In fact, Vs. Children is an album decidedly absent of the battery-powered keyboards of Casiotone For The Painf   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Split 7-inch featuring two songs from the Donkeys: "Be My Girl" and "Seventh Heaven" (recorded by Jason Quever of the Papercuts) and two from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone: "White Corolla" (featuring Jenny Herbinson) and "White on White." Limited to 1000 copies.

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?From Kraftwerk to Leonard Cohen, The Smiths to Suicide, and Pet Shop Boys to Smog, Chicago's one-man musical army Owen Ashworth a.k.a Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - has been bracketed with all manner of illustrious names in the course of his eleven year career. But in collecting the 7-inch split-singles and compilation tracks he released from 2004-7 (all but two of them on CD for the first time), Advance Base Battery Life provides compelling evidence of the singular nature of this industrious f   [ read more ]

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This is the soundtrack to artist and photographer Laurel Nakadate's debut feature film, "Stay the Same Never Change". It consists of thirteen short instrumental pieces, book-ended by two vocal tracks. The instrumentals are all previously released, but were re-constructed and blended with a number of new pieces to create a cohesive score specifically for the project. Built from the sounds of electric pianos, organs, Casio keyboards, a primitive monophonic sequencer/drum machine, and spring reverb, the music    [ read more ]

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This is the fourth album by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Owen Ashworth, still one of the most talented songwriters working in independent music today, and his intimate character studies are finally getting the production they deserve. Instead of limiting the arrangements to battery powered electronics and the occasional contributions from friends, Ashworth has expanded his bedroom recording project into a small orchestra of pianos, organs, strings, flutes, pedal steel guitars, drums, drum machines, a   [ read more ]

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