Last year, Half-Handed Cloud's "Learning About Your Scale" careened across the landscape of independent music like a midget car jammed with clowns. With 25 songs crammed into 27 minutes, "Scale" charmed and amazed reviewers and unaffiliated listeners alike with unexpected instrumentation (trombones, talking books, and an air conditioner) memorable melodies, and a dizzying funhouse vision of The Meaning of Life. Once again, Asthmatic Kitty and Sounds Familyre join together to present a new collection of so...   [ read more ]

CD $12.99

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VINYL FORMAT. Many years ago, Sufjan Stevens and Half-Handed Cloud's John Ringhofer got together in Dan Smiths (Danielson) parents' basement--not to play table tennis--but to record five of John's songs, which were about some funny things: medicine and tablets and letters and graves. At first glance, Sufjan thought, oh no! John's really gotten into this rock star lifestyle, LSD, drug use, psychedelic prose poems, motion sickness, hospitalization, etc. Should he be worried? Well, it turns out, he was all w...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. This is the third in a series of vinyl-only releases. The series, entitled Unusual Animals, pairs Asthmatic Kitty roster artists with friends and sometimes-unlikely bedfellows. Each record includes a beautiful rendering of one of Mother Nature's stranger inhabitants by illustrator Jared Chapman. This limited-edition series expands the Asthmatic Kitty family to include some unexpected folks.

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