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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the lo-fi solo project of Owen Ashworth, a Portland-based songwriter who mixes sensitive Bright Eyes-styled balladry with Atom & His Package battery-operated antics. His weapons of choice are the Casio SK-1 and several hot rod Casiotones, while his lyrics are a coy-edged blend of Stephin Merritt's sarcasm and the Mountain Goats' earnestness. Ashworth released… Read more in Amazon's Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Store

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  • Audio CD (September 23, 2008)
  • Original Release Date: September 23, 2008
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: EP
  • Label: TOMLAB
  • ASIN: B001CVCBNA
  • In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #188,055 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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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 parallels the stories of trouble-making Kansas City teenagers during a sweltering Midwestern summer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars I love...., September 23, 2008
Don't forget about Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

That seems to be the intent of the twinkly little electropop's latest EP, their latest work after a silent patch of two long years. And while the "Town Topic" EP sounds very much like a placeholder, the four songs on here are delicate little confections that try out the electronic and acoustic ranges.

It opens with the tapping percussion and buzzing synth of "Ice Cream Truck," a twinkly little snowflake of a song with a man mumbling about an ice cream truck. He sounds like he's been smoking some of the good stuff. And the band goes all-out in the clashing fuzzy "Green Cotton Sweater," which is as mellow and sedate as a crackling staticky song that sounds like it was filtered through an antique radio can be.

There are also a couple of more stripped-down instrumentals -- the titular track sounds like a music-hall piano being possessed by the spirit of the Fiery Furnaces, while "I Love Creedence" tries to translate their blippy casiotone sound into a more organic, laid-back sound. Not a rumbly word is spoken/sung in either song, of course.

There's something very pleasant and innocent-sounding about Casiotone For the Painfully Alone. And while an EP collecting odds and ends is certainly no substitute for a full-length album, "Town Topic" is a pleasant diversion -- although the title track is too unplugged to really fit in with the other songs.

As always, their music is very twinkly and very "out-there" -- lots of casiotone twittering and shimmering all over the place, with a heavy dose of lightweight drumming in the background. Lots of cymbals, methinks. And they manage to weave in some mellow keyboard and piano, heavy-duty synth thumps, and I think I heard a violin somewhere in the mix.

And, of course, there's the voice -- a guy with a fairly deep voice who murmurs through the sparkly tangle as if he is seriously, extraordinarily stoned.

"Town Topic" is a pretty little halfway point between Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's albums, and while it's not much else, it has some pretty little songs.
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