How We Live is How We Die, by Tethered Hands

How We Live is How We Die

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of I Don't Know What To Call It, But It's Beautiful, How We Live is How We Die, Tethered Hands, Selenium, Tears for Gaza, and The Futile Toil of Tethered Hands. , and , .

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1.	I Will Show You the Infinite Universe 03:06	buy track
2.	Embrace the Chaos 04:00	buy track
3.	I Never Thought it Would End Like This 07:04	buy track
4.	The Wondrous Flow of Birth and Death 07:43	buy track
5.	We Fled from Sacred Realms 05:49	buy track
6.	Ghost of Rochelbel 03:34	buy track
7.	Your Mind is Going (I Can Feel It) 04:09	buy track
8.	This is the End of the End 05:12	buy track
9.	Hold Tight These Hands, Tethered by Toil, for Each Day Could Be Our Last 18:07

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A note about the album from Joseph Phillips: "It's not enough for fans to listen and say, "that's something nice". We want them to feel something. We want the hairs to raise on their arms and their eyes to go wide. Thanks to the addition of incredible talent from all over the world, I feel we have finally achieved this goal on "How We Live is How We Die" and this will set the standard for all albums to come. Thanks for your support!"

From a review by Pat O Regan at RebelOnWax:

"Tethered Hands are more than a band. They are an evolving force of human connection and raw expression. What began as a singular vision has grown into a collective of five remarkable artists, scattered across the globe yet bound by the same pulse. Together, they reach out through the chaos of our modern world, offering something rare and transcendent. They create music that doesn’t just fill the air, but seeps into the soul, demanding it to be felt, inhaled, and remembered.

Their latest release How We Live Is How We Die is a deeply human meditation on loss, heartbreaking in its honesty, yet luminous in its hope. It invites us mere mortals to look directly into the face of death, not with fear, but with curiosity and good human grace. Joseph Phillips, alongside Daniel Rickards, Pascal Normand, Sam Wallis, and Joshua Cook, has crafted an experience that breathes, trembles, and aches with purpose. Together, they’ve created not just an album, but a passage we all must take, a sonic journey that follows the moment of passing into the afterlife, transforming dread into acceptance, and sorrow into something strangely beautiful. This is music that reminds us we are alive, even as it teaches us how to let go and face the inevitable.

With nine tracks to lose yourself in, How We Live Is How We Die is a story told entirely through sound. Its sonic landscape surges with raw power yet is threaded with moments of startling fragility, with melodies so delicate they ache long after they fade."
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released January 23, 2026

All tracks written and recorded by Tethered Hands.

Tethered Hands is:

Joseph Phillips (Indiana): piano, guitar, synth keys
Daniel Rickards (UK): guitar
Sam Wallis (UK): guitar
Pascal Normand (Canada): bass, guitar
Joshua Cook (Pennsylvania) : drums

Guest appearances:

Annabelle Phillips: violin on 'I Never Thought it Would End Like This'
Jon Legg: bass on 'We Fled from Sacred Realms'
Brooke Rampersaud: voice recordings on 'I Will Show You the Infinite Universe', 'I Never Thought it Would End Like This', 'The Wondrous Flow of Birth and Death', 'Your Mind is Going (I Can Feel It)', 'This is the End of the End', and the hidden track at the end of 'Hold tight these hands...'

Front Cover Album art: Joseph Phillips
Back Cover Album Art: Sun O'Caskey at Sunpuppycat Art
Mixed by Joseph Phillips
Mastered by Justin Nazario at Sound Splitter Studio except: tracks 4 & 9 mastered by Joseph Phillips.

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Tethered Hands Richmond, Indiana

Tethered Hands is a transatlantic post-rock supergroup (made up of members of other post-rock groups from all over the world). It was founded in 2023 by Indiana (US) pianist, Joseph Phillips, and is rooted in his emotive melodies.

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