Horrible Occurrences (LP)
Advance Base
Amoeba Review
Horrible Occurrences is filled with sparse and shimmering lovely songs — and yes, they're all about those tragic, terrifying, desolate moments in life. As Advance Base, Owen Ashworth (Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) finds the very human episodes of love, connection, and perseverance amidst the scary stuff. The songs all chronicle happenings in the fictional town of Richmond, a sort of stand-in for the places in the past where traumas reside, whether those traumas are more on the quotidian side (meeting a guy who seems lovely, only to hear he's maybe NOT so lovely in "Rene Goodnight") or more on the "local legend" side (having to face an intruder in your home at night in "The Year I Lived in Richmond"). These tales are so imaginative, so heartfelt, so detailed that it's easy to feel yourself right there alongside the fictional narrators, which makes Horrible Occurrences an incredible moving, gripping, empathetic experience.
Track Listing
Side A Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
The Year I Lived in Richmond
|
Advance Base | 03:48 |
2.
The Tooth Fairy
|
Advance Base | 02:11 |
3.
Big Chris Electric
|
Advance Base | 04:41 |
4.
How You Got Your Picture on the Wall
|
Advance Base | 03:37 |
5.
Rene Goodnight
|
Advance Base | 03:08 |
6.
The One About the Rabbit in the Snow
|
Advance Base | 03:09 |
Side B Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Brian's Golden Hour
|
Advance Base | 04:02 |
2.
Little Sable Point Lighthouse
|
Advance Base | 03:59 |
3.
Andrew & Meagan
|
Advance Base | 03:48 |
4.
Premonition
|
Advance Base | 03:58 |
5.
Richmond
|
Advance Base | 03:00 |