ADVANCE BASE- A Shut-In's Prayer ORD-03
Release date: May 15, 2012
2022 vinyl repress shipping by November 14, 2022
Advance Base is the new musical project by Chicago, Illinois singer, songwriter, & producer Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). A Shut-In's Prayer is Ashworth's first full-length release in over three years, & his first under the name Advance Base. Recorded at home & in piano practice rooms at the Chicago Public Library, A Shut-In's Prayer is an intimate collection of deliberately crafted but decidedly lo-fi torch songs, waltzes & ballads. Accompanying himself on his Rhodes 54 electric piano, Ashworth sings nostalgic stories about lost loves, childhood friends, estranged siblings, & hard feelings over simple drum machine rhythms & spare percussion. The additional arrangements that fill out these ten songs intertwine gentle upright piano melodies & expansive electric bass, filling the spaces between plainly-sung harmony vocals & strummed autoharp chords, with the occasional creaking floorboard or snapping reverb spring to remind you of the cramped rooms where this album was recorded. It's a different sound than one might expect from the dude from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, but Ashworth's keen ear for melody & idiosyncratic skill as a lyricist have only improved in recent years, pushing his memorable songwriting in all new directions. At age 35, Ashworth has a lot of music left in him, & he's just getting started again.
"This is an album of interiors, the childhood memories and small epiphanies of stay-at home-dreamers" -MOJO (Read the full review HERE)
“A smart progression from Ashworth’s Casiotone recordings, presenting that project’s bittersweet introspection with more nuanced production.”
"A Shut-In's Prayer is arguably the strongest album of Owen Ashworth's career thus far" -PITCHFORK (Read the full review HERE)
Tracks
- Summer Music
- New Gospel
- More Trouble
- David Allen
- Christmas In Oakland
- Riot Grrrls
- Goldfish In a Robin's Nest
- My Sister's Birthday
- The Sister You Never Had
- Shut-In River Blues
Pressing Information
Vinyl edition
150 gram marbled vinyl in a heavy duty tip-on sleeve, limited to 1000 copies
2022 re-press
Edition of 600 160 gram vinyl LPs pressed by Smashed Plastic & struck from new lacquers cut by Matt Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Service.
LPs feature black & white labels & ship in fancy, poly-lined sleeves.
LP packages include full color, extra heavyweight jackets featuring featuring photograph by Tom Cops & complete album lyrics, redesigned by Jess Jones.
10 tracks, 34 minutes.
300 copies on silver metallic vinyl
300 copies on classic black vinyl
PRE-ORDERS WILL SHIP BY NOVEMBER 14, 2022.
Tape edition
150 professionally dubbed, high bias cassette tapes in silver metallic shells, imprinted with the Orindal Records logo. 4-panel black & white J-cards feature photography by Tom Cops.
Every purchase includes an instant FLAC or MP3 download of the entire album
US/Canada CD released by Caldo Verde Records
Europe/UK CD/LP on Tomlab Records
Orindal Records is distributed exclusively by The Business in Anacortes, WA.