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Advance Base at Foam St. Louis

Advance Base is new music by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone mastermind Owen Ashworth. Under his new
moniker, Ashworth conjures dreamy waltzes, heavy-hearted ballads & electropop-styled torch songs from
antiquated instruments such as Rhodes electric pianos, Omnichords, Wurlitzer rhythm boxes, & samplers.
Advance Base songs deal with deceased racehorses, estranged siblings, hard feelings, & all things long lost.A
Shut-In's Prayer, the debut album from Advance Base, was number 19 on MOJO Magazine's Best Albums of
2012 list.
The World Is In A Bad Fix Everywhere, an EP of early 20th century gospel music composed by Washington
Phillips, was released June 25, 2013. The Chicago Reader includedThe World Is In A Bad Fix Everywhere on
its Best of Chicago 2013 list. An EP of Magnetic Fields covers calledTomorrow's Homes Today was released
later that year as a limited edition cassette, & went out of print almost immediately.
Advance Base released a digital mixtape of compilation tracks & rarities calledPlastic Owen Band on
November 3, 2014.Nephew in the Wild, a new album of original material, was released August 21, 2015 by
Orindal (US/AQ) & Tomlab (EU/UK). PopMatters namedNephew in the Wild the #1 Indie Pop album of 2015.

830Pm - doors
9PM - show
$7
All Ages