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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 InchShall We Gather at the River?Inch InchAre You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb?Inch and InchThere Shall Be Showers of Blessing,Inch 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. Album Tracks 1. Into Jars 2. The Sea Has No Face 3. You Flagged Us Down with a Wave 4. Splashdowns Hold the Hymnal Together 5. Maritime Rites 6. Guy with Driftwood Skin 7. Source of the Watercourse 8. Armstrong's Line 9. Hydrological Cycle 10. Fresh & Bitter from the Same Spring 11. Sonar Sends Bells to and Fro 12. Out on the Ice, We Face Our Hearts 13. I'm Over the Need to Bail 14. Look, the Clouds Have Got You Again! 15. Divers Divers 16. Liberty Bell 17. You'll Sea 18. Lunar Tears, Timed By Tides 19. Set Your Beams 20. Beachcomber's Ultralight 21. Concentric Groups of Mirrored Loops 22. Command the Wind & Water Inside Me 23. Brooks Embracing Burdens 24. Resting in the Current 25. How Is a Waterwalker Like a Cleft-Stasher?