A cute package of '80s retro that was strictly written with a Casio keyboard. With the four-track recordings of Answering Machine Music: A Brief Album in Twelve Parts, one couldn't get more indie than Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. But this one-man ensemble (Owen Ashworth) has a charming innocence. Here he is gushing his heart out into a two-dollar microphone with personal tales of love lost, while a background of minimal, sloppy rhythmic synthesizers supplies his sometimes gravelly voice. Playful but not in an overly adorable way, lo-fi but not in an unlistenable way, and fun in a bouncy, happy-go-lucky way.

1. Theme From Answering Machine Music
2. When The Bridge Toll Was A Dollar
3. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Joins The Foreign Legion
4. Cold Shoulder
5. Nice Dream Girl
6. Secretest Crush
7. A Normal Suburban Lifestyle Is A Near Impossibility Once You've Fallen In Love With An International Spy
8. Baby It's You
9. You Never Call
10. Darina Flores You're The One
11. Beeline
12. I Should Have Kissed You When I Had The Chance
13. Hey Jelly
14. Hotel Huntington Sign
15. It's Winter And You Don't Love Me Anymore
16. Seattle Washington