Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – Advance Base Battery Life [LP]
Tracklist:
A1 Old Panda Days 2:19Â
A2 Lesley Gore On The T.A.M.I. Show (Version) 3:09Â
A3 White Corolla 1:57Â
A4 White On White 2:09Â
A5 Holly Hobby 2:33Â
A6 Lonesome New Mexican Nights 2:07Â
A7 The Only Way To Cry 0:46Â
A8 It’s A Crime 3:14 A9 Missoula 0:36
B1 Hot Boyz 3:30Â
B2 Born In The U.S.A. 4:30Â
B3 Streets Of Philadelphia 3:44Â
B4 Graceland 4:18Â
B5 Sunday St 2:33Â
B6 Voice Of The Hospital 0:58
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (CFTPA) was the musical solo-project of musician Owen Ashworth (born April 22, 1977) of Redwood City, California. The project was established under a set of Dogme 95-like rules: short songs, played in C, on the white notes of Casio keyboards.The band’s musical style was characterized by the use of electronically produced beats, cheap keyboards, and slow, frank lyrics. From Etiquette onwards, CFTPA widened in musical scope and added more analog instruments and an overall more organic sound.
CFTPA was active 1997 – 2010, during which five studio albums were released, alongside numerous other releases. CFTPA toured with other indie artists such as The Donkeys, Papercuts, P:ano, The Dead Science, David Bazan, The Rapture, and Xiu Xiu. Following the end of CFTPA, Ashworth began a new project, Advance Base.