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Listening to Atmosphere's recent free "party" LP Strictly Leakage (available here), you can tell that it was only a taste of things to come. And indeed, on April 22, Rhymesayers Entertainment will issue When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, the Minneapolis duo's "proper" full-length follow-up to 2005's You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having.

Slug and Ant are juicing up the first pressing of Lemons with a DVD of their show at Minneapolis' First Avenue on this fall's "Everyone Loves a Clown" tour, as well as a gold-embossed, 40-page, hardcover book containing lyrics, credits, and "an illustrated children's story written by Slug," according to a press release. Also, the music on the album itself was apparently "influenced by fatherhood." Atmosphere is for the children!

Atmosphere have promised to kick off a 15-date 15-city North American run on April 22, the album's release date. Hopefully their gargantuan cat (see photo) will be helping out on the turntables.

In the meantime, why not give Strictly Leakage another spin? That is what it's there for, after all.

When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold tracklist:

01 Like the Rest of Us
02 Puppets
03 The Skinny
04 Dreamer
05 Shoulda Known
06 You
07 Painting
08 Your Glass House
09 Yesterday
10 Guarantees
11 Me
12 Wild Wild Horses
13 Can't Break
14 The Waitress
15 In Her Music Box