Half-handed Cloud’s Children’s Album ‘Toothpaste Horse / I Don’t Have a Bib’ Is Now Available to Pre-Order
Occasionally, ever since John Ringhofer released the first Half-handed Cloud album in 1999, people have asked him if he’s considered making music specifically for kids. The day has finally arrived. Toothpaste Horse is a 26-song album written and developed alongside John’s four children, featuring fun-sized, gleeful melodies and handmade arrangements that navigate internal Ringhofer family logic. Most of these songs came about spontaneously as a byproduct of parenting young children, sung around their home nearly every day for years before being recorded. Topics range from motivational tunes for extinguishing light switches, to newborn baby love songs, to asking why there’s a huge tower of discarded egg cartons in the corner — is it for a school project or something?
The album’s first single, “Baby In Your House,” is out now — a sweet, lo-fi Portastudio ode to the joy and chaos of welcoming a new baby into the home, baby-proofing and all.
In producing Toothpaste Horse, Ringhofer revisited the art-making methods of his own late-70s and early-80s childhood, taping the album with a 4-track Portastudio recorder. It’s like The Beach Boys’ Smiley Smile if it had been recorded on a telephone answering machine.
The vinyl pairs Toothpaste Horse with 2018’s self-released I Don’t Have A Bib, now mastered for the first time — totaling 53 songs on one opaque fruit-punch colored record. The package also includes an over three-foot-tall growth chart foldout poster, featuring Ringhofer’s illustrations of the album’s varied instrumentation. Available for pre-order May 20th, releasing June 18th, 2026 on Asthmatic Kitty Records — all pre-orders include an immediate 27-song download of the newly mastered I Don’t Have A Bib.
Tracklist
Toothpaste Horse / Side A
- Wake Up, It’s True!
- Galloping The Mandibular Concourse
- Still Food In Your Bowl
- The Solemn Rite Of Wiping
- What? Where You Going?
- Trying Floor To Ceiling
- To Leave With The Chatterbox
- What Is A Living For?
- Little Baby Bee-Bah
- Lady & Her Baby
- Little Bubbles
- Grandpop Bob Ping Pong Ball
- Nonna Birthday Song
- Sweetie Song
- Aunt’s Birthday
- Four Kid Song
- Rian’s Birthdee Song
- Little Baby Boom
- Baby’s So Nice
- Magic Markers
- Sometimes (Not Your Favorite)
- Baby In Your House
- Working Together
- Baby Houdini
- I Like My Baby
- Turn The Light Off
I Don’t Have A Bib / Side B
- I Don’t Have A Bib
- Ringhofers Abroad
- Diaper Cover Diaper
- The Beatles
- Runeberg Day
- Kinda Walking Around
- Yogurt Song
- Tapes
- Hands In The Santa Gloves
- Who Needs A Bath?
- Going To The Playground
- What Do I Do? Everything!
- Blanket Fort Song
- Popcorn Song
- We Have A Little Baby
- Just A Little Bit Of Pizza
- I Don’t Have A Bib (Mouse Version)
- Doctor Rainbow
- Welcome Baby Ringhofer
- Hoarding Starts At Birth
- This Must Be So
- Pick-up Song
- Getting Ready To Go
- Going Pee Pee Is So Fun
- Wash Your Hands & Your Fingers
- Brush Your Teeth Teeth Teeth
- Lullaby
Designed by Half-handed Cloud, this black Bella Canvas 3001 tee celebrates the upcoming release of Toothpaste Horse, featuring original artwork and film stills captured by Ringhofer on his Super 8 camera.
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