Certain days, my favorite Mountain Goats song is "Woke Up New," the one where John Darnielle imagines himself as someone who is, for reasons unexplained, newly alone. He sings about his feelings but he also sings about the minute little details of his physical experience: "The first time I made coffee for just myself, I made too much of it / But I drank it all just cuz you hate it when I let things go to waste." It's those granular little moments that make the song sing. Because we hear those sharp little images of another person's actual human life, it triggers all our empathy receptors. We can imagine ourselves newly alone in just the same way, feeling that same terrifying desolation. That feeling is where Owen Ashworth lives.