Owen

Written by laura hamlett

Owen | In the past decade, Chicago’s Mike Kinsella has played a variety of instruments in a handful of bands including Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc, The One Up Downstairs, American Football, Owls, Maritime and Aloha. Owen is his solo project. Owen’s debut, Owen, was a stark departure from previous Mike Kinsella projects. There no longer existed a need to play odd time signatures just for the sake of being different or writing parts that were technically challenging purely for the sake of being technically challenging. What remained was an artist finding his way through his home studio for the first time while recording all instrumentation on his own. Since the release of At Home With Owen in 2006, much has changed for Kinsella. During the writing process for the fifth album, September’s New Leaves, Kinsella became both a husband and a father, adding a sense of responsibility and new direction to the personalized quality of Owen releases.

Chicago, Ill. :: singer-songwriter
09.19, Cicero’s, 10:55 p.m.