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2025-12-04 Thursday: Advance Base // Kristin Daelyn
ALL AGES. Masks are required at all times for audience members; performers can opt to unmask while performing but are required otherwise.
DOORS 7:00 / SHOW 7:30 / DONE BY 10:00
Advance Base is the melancholic soft rock recording project of Chicago singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of Advance Base has been described as "lo-fi," "depressed" & "weirdly uplifting."
Advance Base has supported The Postal Service, Pedro the Lion, The Mountain Goats, Stephin Merritt, Dean Wareham, Slaughter Beach Dog & Wednesday. Owen Ashworth is also the sole founder, owner and operator of Orindal Records.
Advance Base Audiotree session
“Christmas in Nightmare CIty” music video
“Under the name Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Owen Ashworth spent over a decade giving voice to the anxieties of young misfits with battery-powered keyboards serving as his primary accompaniment. He rebranded himself as Advance Base in 2011, and the best moments on his newest album find melancholy taking a backseat to lucid, unguarded sincerity.” - Pitchfork
"remarkable eye for minutiae and mundane detail” - NPR
“It’s with no exaggeration we describe Owen Ashworth as one of the most consistent and important songwriters in contemporary indie music. From the earliest Casiotone For the Painfully Alone demos to most recent Advance Base single ‘Little Sable Point Lighthouse‘, Owen has crafted a catalogue of characters and circumstances with few rivals in the modern era. His is an ever evolving body of work which stands out in its deftness and humility and empathy and care, bringing to life individuals from across the spectrum of human experience while remaining unerringly attuned to the tender, fallible heart at the centre of each.” - Various Small Flames
"A Raymond Carver short story collection set to music by a Joan of Arc-era OMD" - MOJO Magazine
https://advancebase.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/advance_base/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4YIMPSc3zZLRwe4Ujaxjce?si=rcBJlxfXTDi-5Hgv2ID20A
Beyond the Break, the second full-length album by Kristin Daelyn, is a statement of rare tranquility and wisdom, atmosphere and grace. In these eight compositions, the Philadelphia songwriter takes influence from solo guitarists like Leo Kottke and John Fahey as well as writers like Mary Oliver, whose poem “Patience” inspired the early single “Patience Comes to the Bones.” Through instrumental pieces that highlight her virtuosity as a player and elegant folk songs that showcase her gifts for tender pop melodies and emotionally incisive lyrics, Daelyn’s voice feels both urgent and timeless. Like a well-loved paperback passed between friends, her songs are open to reflection and personal annotation, designed to be of use.
https://kristindaelyn.bandcamp.com/
ALL AGES. Masks are required at all times for audience members; performers can opt to unmask while performing but are required otherwise.
DOORS 7:00 / SHOW 7:30 / DONE BY 10:00
Advance Base is the melancholic soft rock recording project of Chicago singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of Advance Base has been described as "lo-fi," "depressed" & "weirdly uplifting."
Advance Base has supported The Postal Service, Pedro the Lion, The Mountain Goats, Stephin Merritt, Dean Wareham, Slaughter Beach Dog & Wednesday. Owen Ashworth is also the sole founder, owner and operator of Orindal Records.
Advance Base Audiotree session
“Christmas in Nightmare CIty” music video
“Under the name Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Owen Ashworth spent over a decade giving voice to the anxieties of young misfits with battery-powered keyboards serving as his primary accompaniment. He rebranded himself as Advance Base in 2011, and the best moments on his newest album find melancholy taking a backseat to lucid, unguarded sincerity.” - Pitchfork
"remarkable eye for minutiae and mundane detail” - NPR
“It’s with no exaggeration we describe Owen Ashworth as one of the most consistent and important songwriters in contemporary indie music. From the earliest Casiotone For the Painfully Alone demos to most recent Advance Base single ‘Little Sable Point Lighthouse‘, Owen has crafted a catalogue of characters and circumstances with few rivals in the modern era. His is an ever evolving body of work which stands out in its deftness and humility and empathy and care, bringing to life individuals from across the spectrum of human experience while remaining unerringly attuned to the tender, fallible heart at the centre of each.” - Various Small Flames
"A Raymond Carver short story collection set to music by a Joan of Arc-era OMD" - MOJO Magazine
https://advancebase.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/advance_base/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4YIMPSc3zZLRwe4Ujaxjce?si=rcBJlxfXTDi-5Hgv2ID20A
Beyond the Break, the second full-length album by Kristin Daelyn, is a statement of rare tranquility and wisdom, atmosphere and grace. In these eight compositions, the Philadelphia songwriter takes influence from solo guitarists like Leo Kottke and John Fahey as well as writers like Mary Oliver, whose poem “Patience” inspired the early single “Patience Comes to the Bones.” Through instrumental pieces that highlight her virtuosity as a player and elegant folk songs that showcase her gifts for tender pop melodies and emotionally incisive lyrics, Daelyn’s voice feels both urgent and timeless. Like a well-loved paperback passed between friends, her songs are open to reflection and personal annotation, designed to be of use.
https://kristindaelyn.bandcamp.com/