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Artist:	CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE
Title:	Town Topic EP
Label:	TOMLAB (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	TOM 122CD

"The Town Topic EP is the soundtrack to video artist and photographer Laurel Nakadate's debut feature film, Stay The Same Never Change. Laurel commissioned Casiotone For The Painfully Alone's Owen Ashworth to provide all of the music for Stay The Same Never Change, right down to the character's ring tones. The Town Topic EP consists of thirteen short instrumental pieces, book-ended by two vocal tracks that were recorded specifically for the film. This EP also collects tracks from two limited, vinyl-only EPs (the Town Topic 7", released by OIB Records in Brighton, England, and STSNC Instrumentals 7", released by People In A Position To Know Recordings, Inc. in Olympia, WA), plus one bonus track, the previously unreleased 'Lesley Gore on the Tami Show (instrumental).'"

Artist:	CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE
Title:	Advance Base Battery Life
Label:	TOMLAB (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TOM 127CD

"From Kraftwerk to Leonard Cohen, The Smiths to Suicide, and Pet Shop Boys to Smog, Chicago's one-man musical army Own Ashworth -- aka 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 film-school dropout's talent."

Artist:	CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE
Title:	Answering Machine Music
Label:	TOMLAB (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TOM 021CD

"CFTPA is songs made up, sung and played by Owen Ashworth. His first release on Tomlab under the title Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars has gained a lot of attention in the alternative press with an endless list of references ranging from Moldy Peaches, Mountain Goats, Smog, Silver Jews, Young Marble Giants to Will Oldham. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's self released debut album, Answering Machine Music that has been hard to find previously is now available in an expanded version. A series of musical answering machine messages disguised as pop songs. Recorded in 1999 on 4-tracks, answering machines, and boom boxes and played entirely on swap meet and thrift store bought miniature keyboards, it just may be the best battery-powered pop record you've ever heard."

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