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Though April 8 marks the official release of Cloud Cult's sixth LP Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornados), let me help you help yourself. If you want to, you can order the disc via Cloud Cult's website and listen to it right this very second. Or, you can skip on down to your local record mart April 8 and greet these Ghosts head-on.

Whether you opt for patience or haste, your (physical) copy of the Cult's follow-up to last year's The Meaning of 8 will arrive via the band's eco-friendly Earthology imprint. And, of course, it will be full of the kind of genre-skipping electronic-tinged symphonic swell these Minneapolitans have made their own over the last five LPs. So it's win-win!

In the most environmentally-friendly way they possibly can, Cloud Cult are on the road, sharing a bill with My Brightest Diamond before a spate of shows at SXSW and a full-blown tour in April and May. Just make sure to mind the splatter: Cloud Cult are known to perform with a live painter.

Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornados):

01 No One Said It Would Be Easy
02 Everybody Here Is a Cloud
03 The Tornado Lessons
04 When Water Comes to Life
05 Must Explore
06 Journey of the Featherless
07 The Ghost Inside Our House
08 It's What You Need
09 Story of the Grandson of Jesus
10 Hurricane and Fire Survival Guide
11 May Your Hearts Stay Strong
12 The Will of a Volcano
13 Love You All

Cloud Cult:

03-12 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater *^
03-13 Austin, TX - Maggie Mae's (SXSW)
03-13 Austin, TX - The Current (SXSW)
03-14 Austin, TX - Emo's Annex (SXSW)
03-14 Austin, TX - Red Eyed Fly (SXSW)
03-15 Austin, TX - Molotov Lounge (SXSW)
03-15 Austin, TX - Lucky Lounge
03-16 Little Rock, AR - Revolution Music Room
03-17 St. Louis, MO - Bluebird
04-08 Minneapolis, MN - Electric Fetus
04-11 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
04-12 Indianapolis, IN - Radio Radio $
04-13 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig $
04-14 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo
04-16 Boston, MA - Middle East
04-18 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
04-19 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
04-21 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
04-22 Atlanta, GA - Smith's Olde Bar $
04-24 Columbus, OH - The Basement
04-25 Chicago, IL - Schubas (two shows)
04-26 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
05-07 Bozeman, MT - Filling Station $
05-08 Missoula, MT - The Loft $
05-09 Seattle, WA - Neumos
05-10 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
05-13 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
05-14 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory
05-16 Aspen, CO - Belly Up
05-17 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge ^
05-18 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
05-19 Omaha, NE - Slowdown ^

* with My Brightest Diamond
^ with Kid Dakota
$ with the Forms