Blog: L.A. RECORD

Each song tells a sad story–of a one night stand, a car crash, or of general malaise in Kansas. He seems to have a keen ability to parse experience down to its most skeletal form ("not how you imagined it...in a pantry with the pancake mix, you had your New Year's kiss"), and then to make those bones dance to catchy electronic beats. The very personal, faux-autobiographical nature of the songs makes for an intimate listening experience, or as one iTunes reviewer put it so succinctly, "Owen, I love you! You were the soundtrack of my high school depression!"