Hi All,

An article appeared in the New York Times this weekend called “The Return of the One Man Band” by John Wray. It’s a great article about Final Fantasy, St. Vincent, and Panda Bear (with a brief nod to Sufjan Stevens), but it also had these nice words to say about the great Half-handed Cloud:

“…in the last few years there has been a gravitation from tried-and-true rock paradigms, driven both by boredom with the increasingly threadbare conventions of indie rock and by a sincere, if playful, rediscovery of experimentalists as diverse as Van Dyke Parks and Philip Glass. And it’s no surprise that many of the boldest of these, like Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Half-handed Cloud and Ghostband, are essentially one-person projects that don’t require too much consensus about what a song should be.”

Way to go, Mr. Ringhofer!

For the whole article, click here!

Monday, May 19th, 2008 - Sufjan Stevens, Half-handed Cloud

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