Asthmatic Kitty Records presents the fifth Half-Handed Cloud full-length album: As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf, We Live-out in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth, or Stowaways for short. Connected with the lyrical tradition of 19th Century American hymns such as "Shall We Gather at the River?" "Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb?" and "There Shall Be Showers of Blessing," these tunes splash about in cavernous spaces opened up by irregularly measured rhythms and pocket-orchestra arrangements integrated with creaky pianos, sound-loops, a tugboat of a church organ, guitars, and billowing banjos.

Tracklist:

Into Jars
Sea Has No Face, The
You Flagged Us Down with a Wave
Splashdowns Hold the Hymnal Together
Maritime Rites
Guy with Driftwood Skin
Source of the Watercourse
Armstrong's Line
Hydrological Cycle
Fresh & Bitter from the Same Spring
Sonar Sends Bells to and Fro
Out On the Ice, We Face Our Hearts
I'm Over the Need to Bail
Look, the Clouds Have Got You Again!
Divers Divers
Liberty Bell
You'll Sea
Lunar Tears, Timed by Tides
Set Your Beams
Beachcomber's Ultralight
Concentric Groups of Mirrored Loops
Command the Wind & Water Inside Me
Brooks Embracing Burdens
Resting in the Current
How Is a Water-Walker Like a Cleft-Stasher?

UPC: 656605608228
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Release Date: 9.28.10
Format: CD

Half-Handed Cloud - Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf We Live-Out in Our (CD)