Owen Ashworth from
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone that called it quits December 2010, is making
music again under the project name Advance Base. The 1st full-length
album is out May 15th 2012 and is titled: A Shut-In’s Prayer.
Advance Base was the name of an Antarctic outpost explorer Richard E. Byrd was
trapped for five solid months in 1934 says Ashworth, and was felt an
appropriate name for Ashworth’s new project featuring Nick Ammerman, Edward
Crouse, and Jody Weinmann.
At first listen,
the album beams with loneliness and rapport of an explorer from a century ago
trapped in the gray solitude. The same minimalistic aesthetic melody gently resonates
throughout the entire album, while a humble drum machine and unblemished Rhodes
chords compliment complex lyrics of painful nostalgic, from a yesteryear of
fleeted youth. The album is a perfect unit of radiation dosing from headphones
to escape from a sanctimonious modern life to a simpler healing of growing up.
Riot Grrrls seems to be the 1st single telling a story of young
friendships growing up and growing apart as life happens. The opener Summer
Love- that painful old breakup grinding at the joints with time like arthritis,
and the closer Shut-In River Blues- a increased inevitability through
interpretive Rhodes that life can be shut-in.
Advance Base’s A
Shut-In Prayer is available on 150gram marble vinyl on the band’s website www.advancebase.com for a 34 minute
shut-in of musical narrative reliving memories.
4.3/5
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