Yes you read it right! One Inch Badge Records are INCREDIBLY PROUD to announce that we will be releasing the new Casiotone for the Painfully Alone 7” EP titled Town Topic. We’ve all been huge Casiotone fans for many years so it’s with huge pleasure that we will be releasing this title.

Town Topic is a 4 track 7” release of songs taken from the Laurel Nakadate feature-length movie ‘Stay The Same Never Change’.

Cover of Town Topic EP

The initial run of just 200 will be available on solid blue 42g weight 7” vinyl at the merch table of the upcoming Casiotone UK tour (100 available), starting March 5th in London at Bush Hall, following the tour the record will be available here in our webstore while stocks last (100 available). Our webstore version will come with two limited edition badges designed by Casiotone, including a badge of the newly redesigned One Inch Badge Records logo by Casiotone himself.

The two badges available with the 7” exclusive to the OIB Records webstore

* 05/05/08 * - BLUE VINYL NOW SOLD OUT (clear and black still available)

CLEAR

UK / Town Topic 7” - £3.50

EU / Town Topic 7” - £4.50

RoW / Town Topic 7” - £5.50

BLACK

UK / Town Topic 7” - £3.50

EU / Town Topic 7” - £4.50

RoW / Town Topic 7” - £5.50

The second run of 1000 copies will be available in equal quantities of clear and black vinyl versions. The clear version will be available on Casiotone for the Painfully Alone’s USA tour as well as here in the webstore once the super limited blue version is sold out. The black version and a handful of the clear version will both be available for retail in Europe and the USA via Southern Records in April. Release date TBC.

Tracklisting:
1. Ice Cream Truck
2. Town Topic (instrumental)
3. I Love Creedence (instrumental)
4. Green Cotton Sweater (version)

You’ll be able to hear the lead track from the record streamed on our MySpace page from the end of February. But if you can’t wait that long then you can check out a clip on the ‘Stay The Same Never Change’ website.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the musical alias of 30 year old American film school drop-out Owen Ashworth. Ashworth began his intricate ventures into abstract emotional music in 1997 after he realized that song-making was a far more cost-effective means of storytelling than film-making. To date, he has produced 4 CFTPA album, released through Tomlab(link to www.tomlab.com), that have defined a hybrid strain of raw, emotional and very homemade synth pop, this is instantly recognizable as his own. Claustrophobic two-minute character studies shuddered with reverbed beats, blown-out chords and simple but infectious melodies, all layered beneath Ashworth’s bittersweet lyrical odes to love lost.

Town Topic is the soundtrack EP for the American independent film Stay The Same Never Change by the critically acclaimed New York / Los Angeles artist Laurel Nakadate. Bathed in the blinding light and sticky heat of Kansas City’s summer, Stay The Same Never Change utalises both amateur and first-time actors to create a fictional account of everyday lives and a portrait of a real place. It’s an unsettling coming-of-age story delivered through the real-life experiences of youth in the American Midwest.

Tour Dates:

March 5th – Bush Hall, London
March 7th – Roisin Dubh, Galway, Ireland
March 8th – Black Box Café, Belfast, N.Ireland
March 9th – Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland
March 10th – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
March 11th – Nice N’ Sleazy, Glasgow
March 12th – The Crescent, York
March 13th – Charlies, Manchester
March 14th – Cube Cinema, Bristol
March 15th – UWIC Howard Gardens, Cardiff
March 16th – The Social, Nottingham
March 17th – The Pressure Point, Brighton W/ Lonely Ghosts