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- Summary: Owen Ashworth (previously known as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) returns under the Advance Base name with an album recorded in a rehearsal room at the Chicago Public Library.
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- Record Label: Caldo Verde Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jul 19, 2012Coupling the stark lyrical honesty with the understated beauty of the melodies and instrumentation produces an album that that will stay with you for a very long time indeed.
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MojoJul 19, 2012It's Thornton Wilder's Our Town divested of optimism, yet retaining that play's twilight feel. [Aug 2012, p.86]
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Jul 19, 2012The narratives are better developed and there are invariably a couple of lines in each song that hit home emotionally.
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Jul 19, 2012Without sacrificing any of his detailed, anecdotal lyricism or thoughtful keyboard arrangements, Advanced Base managed to construct a record you can play over and over again without feeling so sorry for yourself.
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Jul 19, 2012A Shut-In's Prayer is arguably the strongest album of Owen Ashworth's career thus far, and it arrives at a time when the influence of his former project looms over specific spheres of indie music.
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Jul 19, 2012In a sparse 34 minutes, A Shut-In's Prayer switches tracks, tempos and narrators often enough to feel relatively fresh from start to finish.
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Jul 19, 2012While there is something troubling about all this looking back, the music makes it more of a two-sided coin.