HALF-HANDED CLOUD
Flutterama (Oxidized Tape Brown Vinyl LP)
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The new (7th) Half-handed Cloud album, Flutterama, is a record of 18 jubilant indie-pop songs that investigate spiritual incompetence with lively, rhapsodic arrangements and radiant melodies that dissolve into sonic deterioration using herky-jerky tape manipulation and analog wow-and-flutter with an animated orchestra of home-recorded sound effects. This is an album of juxtapositions and contradictions, where joy and sorrow are underpinned by festive mourning, where balloons and tablecloths battle with trombones and pianos, and where the tape machine itself plays a vital role in the album’s drive, interrupting moments of ecstasy and revelation with varispeed pitch shifts and grainy decay. As with all things Half-handed Cloud, these songs are quick, bright, spastic, and fantastic. Whole libraries of sound and sense are compressed into mere seconds, with lyrical depth and wordplay conveying wit, wisdom, and existential anxiety that often seem at odds with the music’s joyful, child-like surfaces. At the center of this auditory journey lies the conscience and imagination of band-leader John Ringhofer, whose awe-and-wonder explorations of sound and unique spiritual conviction work in tandem to make sense of a world at odds with itself. If art is a battle, this album surrenders.
Tracklist:
1. Bustin' Stronghodes
2. Trickmonks
3. Swallowing The Water You Walk On
4. Can Shadows Praise You?
5. The Netherworld Squints At The Sight Of You
6. Trick Leash
7. Anamnesis
8. Asking For Fish
9. I'm The Weakest Link
10. Under Your Breath
11. Handles
12. What's Illumined Becomes Visible
13. Someone You Can Use
14. About Face
15. Periodically Yours
16. We Won't Survive This
17. Project Yourself Alive Onto My Corpse
18. We Belong To You, But How Now Is Soon?