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. [MORE...]