Upset The Rhythm presents…
ADVANCE BASE
Monday 22 July
Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £12 | https://link.dice.fm/advance-base-redon
ADVANCE BASE is the electronic solo project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric pianos, autoharps, Omnichords, loops, samples & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed tunes around his conversational, baritone vocals. The sound of Advance Base has been described as "lo-fi," "depressed" & "weirdly uplifting." Advance Base has supported live dates for The Postal Service, Pedro the Lion, The Mountain Goats, Dean Wareham, Alan Sparhawk, Mark Kozelek & Stephin Merritt. The debut Advance Base album, ‘A Shut-In's Prayer’ (2012), was released by Caldo Verde Records & Ashworth's own Orindal Records. ‘Nephew in the Wild’, the second album by Advance Base, was released in 2015 by Orindal Records & Tomlab Records. PopMatters named ‘Nephew in the Wild’ the number 1 Indie Album of 2015. ‘Animal Companionship’, the third & most recent album by Advance Base, was released last September. The sound of the album is soft and thick and comforting. And when we’re working with songs as sad as the ones that Ashworth writes, that level of comfort really comes in handy. He used to write sad love songs, or sad songs about love. He’s still doing that, really, except that he’s now middle-aged, with a wife and kids, living in suburban Chicago, and the songs reflect that. The songs on ‘Animal Companionship’ are full of a whole life’s worth of regrets and missed opportunities and moments of acceptance and dead friends. It’s not as bleak, either; there are moments of happiness, or at least sustenance, sprinkled all through ‘Animal Companionship’. But in its sharp and unrelenting and empathetic specificity, this is some real masterly heart-wrecker music.
http://advancebasemusic.com/
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