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A Shut​-​In's Prayer

by Advance Base

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rahlinrigsby
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rahlinrigsby Beautiful songwriting, less is so much more. I don't know how someone could make a record so catchy while also being heartbreaking in a fun way. Favorite track: Summer Music.
glenrobinson
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glenrobinson It's hard to pick one from this collection of gems. A good place to start is My Sister's Birthday, which in a small space encapsulates the scars and subliminal love for siblings. Family dynamics laid out in a 4 minute pop song. Favorite track: My Sister's Birthday.
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Jeremy / HI54LOFI Today's the day I realized that I only had 1 track —the still just as excellent 'Summer Music'— off this album on my computer. Today is also the day I fixed that problem. Favorite track: Summer Music.
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1.
Summer Music 03:25
some recollection of symmetry it was hazy & 70 & her in her summer dress half a beer & her hair a mess the sound of music from the kitchen boombox with a heart like a symphony cymbal crashing infinity it came under some duress she left with my happiness the sound of music from the kitchen boombox there's no comfort in sympathy she's upstate with a family I'm still at the same address I still believe I could love her best the sound of music from the kitchen boombox
2.
New Gospel 03:18
I could hear the T.V. playing as I was coming up the stair loud enough the dead could hear you've been watching all your game shows trying to find a code like there's some trick that they don't want you to know you've been stashing all your empties in the neighbor's bins like the landlord doesn't know you're drinking you've been sermonizing every day just to keep your ghosts away it's a wonder that you find so much to say oh you need a new gospel because the bottom fell out the old one long ago
3.
More Trouble 02:36
waiting by the phone waiting on the doctor to call in with some kind of news waiting all the morning waiting on the doctor to call in with some kind of news waiting by the phone waiting on the doctor to call in with some kind of news waiting all the afternoon waiting on the doctor to call in with any kind of news waiting all the evening waiting on the doctor to call in with some kind of news your sister got the phone she picked up the hallway & fainted dead away when she heard the doctor say I'm sorry Jane
4.
David Allen 03:23
out past the curfew & out past the fence childs in the woods behind town with flashlights & blankets a tarp for a tent a wild place to lay ourselves down but us two were too scared try as we might to sleep under screech owls & moths in the night we ran back to your house before it was light & Tarzan'd the apple tree up to the balcony that was the summer that we both turned 10 before you left our neighborhood your sister your mom & you changed names again to escape your step-dad for good I thought that I saw you the other night outside a sports bar in neon light but I should know better than trust my sight how I've wondered Davy if often you thought of me
5.
it's Christmas in Oakland I don't feel a thing rode bikes to the Chevron for Chesterfield Kings the smoke in our eyes as we ride how it stings what tidings we bring it's Christmas in Oakland & warm as spring snuck into the movies with tall boys to drink asleep half an hour into some awful thing & dreaming it's Christmas in Oakland no carolers sing the whole town's desserted gingerbread housing we're Saint Nicks with buckets & bells to ring what tidings we bring on Christmas in Oakland we had a fling you looked like an angel who'd lost its wings with stars in our eyes lying on mattress springs we were beaming
6.
Riot Grrrls 03:29
Meg & me were friends when we were in school we were the only riot girls that we knew summer jobs at the Oak Mall Cinemas 1 & 2 we saw every movie we could sit through gin in soda cups when we'd work nights the projectionist gave us weed sometimes & we'd drive around in my father's Taurus singing along with the tapes that boys made us Meg went crazy we lost touch I don't think of her much I've got kids of my own the oldest half grown I left for Reed that fall & Meg got fired but we'd talk on the phone most nights 'til we got tired I made friends with girls my age Meg drank on her own & when the money ran out she moved home & we'd drive around when I came home for Christmas wondering if we ran who'd miss us
7.
sat all day by the riverside & slept all night in the trees dreamt that I was a robin singing calling you to me build us a nest between the branches gentle in the breeze robin's egg blue robin's egg blue queasy seasick for ages there's a swell inside of me funny feeling like goldfish swimming fins in my belly imagine your face with dad's eyes shining pretty as could be robin's egg blue robin's egg blue
8.
my sister & me we don't see eye to eye she's got religion & I don't ask why her husband & kids they all pray to the sky it was my sister's birthday the other night 36 candles for someone to light but I didn't call her & I didn't write oh when we were kids she stuck up for me when no one else did my sister's got a scar under her eye where I hit her with a sparkler when she was 5 on the Klamath River the 4th of July my sister's got a heart that's open wide can't seem to talk without making her cry to bring up the past is like twisting a knife oh when we were kids she stuck up for me when no one else did
9.
turn off the T.V. & please set the table the casserole's ready at 6 & go fetch your brother he's down at Patricia's they're watching horror flicks they'll show you the scary part a wolf rips a man apart from within there's no defense like 3 plates at dinner ever since the winter it doesn't make any sense changes come with the seasons let summer turn into fall there's no use complaining you don't want things changing at all 15 years later you live on an island but you've got your telephone calls you'll see mom at Christmas & Dad at Thanksgiving your brother you won't see at all he's living abroad now somewhere in England & going by Deborah or Paul he signed you a postcard the sister you never had you've got it pinned to your wall changes come with the seasons let summer turn into fall there's no use complaining you don't want things changing at all
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#19 on MOJO Magazine's Best Albums of 2012 list

"A smart progression from Ashworth's Casiotone recordings, presenting that project's bittersweet introspection with more nuanced production... A Shut-In's Prayer is arguably the strongest album of Owen Ashworth's career thus far." -Pitchfork

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released May 15, 2012

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Owen Ashworth sang & played Rhodes, rhythm box & percussion on all songs, plus Omnichord (1), bass synth (1, 6, 7, 8), piano (2, 3, 4, 8, 10), Mellotron samples (5, 7) & autoharp (9)

Nick Ammerman played autoharp (2, 3, 4) & Omnichord (6)

Julie Byrne sang (2)

Edward Crouse sang (4, 5) & played piano (2, 3, 4, 6)

Jody Weinmann sang (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) & played bass (2, 3, 4, 6)

recorded by Owen Ashworth at home & at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago, Illinois 2010-2012

mastering by Bob Weston

cover photography by Tom Cops

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