Recording information: Advance Base, Chicago, IL; Bordeaux, France; Pan American Recording Studios, San Francisco, CA.

Unknown Contributor Role: Owen Ashworth.

The fifth album by one-man-band Owen Ashworth, aka Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, still contains plenty of the rinky-dink electronic keyboards inherent in his band name, but on CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE VS. CHILDREN, he adds acoustic piano, organ, Mellotron, and live drums. Ashworth even invites some guest musicians into his previously hermetic soundworld. But the sound and feel of these 11 quirky, idiosyncratic songs remains as intensely personal as on his earlier albums, featuring awkwardly sung and nakedly personal lyrics over bouncy, bubblegummy tunes.