Keep That Plague From Spreading

Half-Handed Cloud “Let’s Go Javelin!/Ezekiel Bread” – Like their peers in the Danielson Famile and Soul-Junk, Half-Handed Cloud specialize in a sort of twee hippie Christian music that is so odd and non-didactic that agnostic listeners might not even notice the non-secular themes unless they are up on their Old Testamest iconography. The first verse of “Ezekiel Bread” quotes a recipe from the Book Of Ezekiel almost verbatim. This bread is proof to Ezekiel that God provides all the nourishment that humans need, even if He insists that you cook it with your own excrement. (Click here to buy it from Insound.)

Halcali “Girgiri Surf Rider (Half Rider Mix)” – This song is gleefully noncommital in regards to genre, skipping around to any affect that works at the moment without ever seeming selfconcious or ostentatious. I don’t speak Japanese, so I have no idea what’s going on in the lyrics aside for a few stray phrases in English and the words “surf rider” in the title, but if someone told me that this was a jingle for candies or something like that, I’d probably believe them. (Click here to buy it from CD Japan and here for the Halicali blog.)