i won’t bother actually reviewing an album that’s two years old, but i did want to sing a little praise for casiotone for the painfully alone real quick. i picked up his album twinkle echo a few weeks ago and was pretty into the way it was so unabashedly lo-fi and outwardly heartbreaking. i also got into this bad habit of coming home from a party or a bar and sitting on my balcony, alone at 3am, smoking a cigarette with this cd playing out through the door. not so much because i needed a smoke as much as because it seemed like the most appropriate way to enjoy this album (i maintain that i am in no way addicted to either nicotine or hopeless romanticism — they’re both just nice to enjoy sometimes).

anyway, if you haven’t heard him, or haven’t heard enough of him yet, you should check out the overdue pay day song, roberta c — one of the album’s best tracks. for more i’d say the album is a solid pickup too, or at least head over to insound for a few more tracks. ‘jeane, if you’re ever in portland’, also off this album, is another solid winner. sweet and sad and great for a warm summer night of solitude.