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Armed with the psalms of David, an acoustic guitar, and the electronic Omnichord, Half-handed Cloud assails nineteen new pop songs outside Eden's gates on Halos & Lassos, the latest album on Asthmatic Kitty Records. With hints of fitness music and video game soundtracks, Halos & Lassos tromps through 19 songs like a mostly-sunny afternoon in Berkeley, California_home of bandleader John Ringhofer. With the modal purity of Moondog, symphonic elements of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and the ancient art of punning, the album boasts pop melodies arranged around the ambidextrous

Half-handed Cloud_s third album for Asthmatic Kitty, nThy is a Word and Feet Need Lamps² delivers an enlightening new collection of signature songs by singer/songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist John Ringhofer. HHC_s first two full-length albums, nLearning About Your Scale (2001)² and nWe Haven_t Just Been Told, We Have Been Loved (2002)² left critics struggling to draw comparisons with other artists, but there is really no one quite like HHC. nThy...² features guitars, cellos, pianos, breathy church organs, woodwinds, brass, non-instrument sounds, an eight-person choir, and