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15 December 2025

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Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

Vs Children

The fifth album of Owen Ashworth's idiosyncratic indie electronic productions

Label: Tomlab
UK Release date: 07/04/2009

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8.0 5112
8.0 | musicOMH

These haunting, desolate narratives are very much complemented by the lo-fi, repetitive, yet meditative backing tracks, which are ultimately presented like the lost soundtrack to a movie.
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7.9 5113
7.9 | Pitchfork

Easily the most mature and thematically ambitious Casiotone release to date
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