Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
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According to music label Tomlab, if Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's 2006 album Etiquette was the band's Queen is Dead , then Advance Base Bat...

As the name implies, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone work in a foundation of minimalist, electronic keyboard patterns and sounds with darkly satiric...

With a proper release of new songs due in less than a month, you might wonder why Owen Ashworth, the man behind Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, fee...

Owen Ashworth has achieved that most difficult of things - in an impossibly crowed field, he’s carved out a unique and recognisable voice among indie ...

Owen Ashworth, the sole member of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, is an old-fashioned sort of guy. This trait was once embodied by Ashworth’s aesth...

Roughly three years ago - at some point in 2006 - a dear friend of mine introduced me to Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. “What a strange name” I th...

It’s difficult not to sympathise with Owen Asbury. Instead of striding, he shuffles; instead of triumphing, he fails; and instead of letting it all go...

Music is like a box of chocolates. Some of it is exquisitely produced with intense attention to detail, and then you have the 'mis-shapes' brand, the ...

Ah, the compilation of ‘rarities’ and ‘b-sides’. In these the waning days of the music business, the need to monetize every note that a semi-profitabl...

Saultations Casiotone, and welcome back your bad self. After three years out in the fringes (alone and in pain/training), everyone’s favorite film sch...