Etiquette - Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
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  • Summary: This fourth disc of lo-fi indie electronica from Portland, Oregon's Owen Ashworth adds guest vocalists and a much wider variety of instrumentation into the mix.
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  1. Like previous albums, this one is full of sharp, sudden observations, rueful admissions of failure and surprising sweetness.
  2. If Ashworth’s lyrical razorblade was blunted by the quaintness of Casiotone consistency before, his new compositional confidence allows its sharpness to shine and cut as deep as you could handle without running a bath.
  3. Ashworth earns sympathy aplenty vocally, but his mechanical compositions occasionally jar awkwardly against his heartfelt outpourings.
  4. He dissects his 20-something malaise with a dry and eloquent wit like a K-Mart Morrissey. [6 May 2006, p.33]

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  1. MihaiV
    8
    Not a classic, but a good album nevertheless. Nice rock-electronic arrangements.