Sufjan Collaborates With Half-Handed Cloud on New EP

Unless E and P stand for Ecclesiastes and Proverbs, it looks like there are some new tunes comin' atcha. Well, sort of new. According to the Asthmatic Kitty website, this EP was put together "many years ago", so like our grandparents, the Beatles, and Sufjan's second-favorite Testament, these songs are old.

Half-handed Cloud's John Ringhofer and Sufjan Stevens', uh, Sufjan Stevens, got together in Danielson Famile man Daniel Smith's basement way before all this 50 States business and recorded songs about "Friendship, Kinship, Sons and Fathers, and Broken Promises," says the AK site. Do don't expect any cuss words.

The five-songer, titled What's the Remedy EP and available only in 7" form, hits stores today. The tracks were written by Ringhofer, who also sang, played piano, organ and acoustic guitar. Good ol' Sufjey also sang, pianoed, organed, acoustic guitared, in addition to playing drums, banjo, flute, and tambourine, and producing the track. That's teamwork! The EP's cover art is a print by Ringhofer himself, a self-potrait featuring a bloody wound. Stigmata? We think notta. The cut is on his chin, but it's still pretty nasty.

Vinyl is Sufjucking cool:

Side A:

01 We're Not Getting Well
02 Took Your Tablets
03 I Got a Letter
Side B:

04 Ten Commandment Tombstone
05 Here's a List

Sufjan is currently wrapping up a tour overseas where they might not even know who John Wayne Gacy, Jr. is. Half-handed Cloud, on the other half-hand, is heading over to Europe for but one show after Sufjan takes off. We didn't know they gave frequent flyer miles for vacationing with that dude up in Heaven.

Sufjan:

10-25 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique *
10-26 Paris, France - Point Ephemere
10-27 Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso *
10-31 London, England - King's College
11-01 London, England - King's College
11-05 Paris, France - Les Inrockuptibles
01-14 New York, NY - Lincoln Center - Allen Room

* with My Brightest Diamond

Half-handed Cloud:

11-03 London, England - Upstairs at the Betsey Trotwood

* Pitchfork Review: Half-handed Cloud: Learning About Your Scale

Half-handed Cloud: http://www.halfhandedcloud.com/
Sufjan Stevens: http://www.sufjan.com/
Asthmatic Kitty Records: http://www.asthmatickitty.com/main.php