The Hands That Thieve

The band completed the album in mid-January, and it was announced on February 15 that the album would be finally released on April 30. The band also planned to produce a live EP to compensate for the various delays, which the band claimed would be "an exclusive RISC Store gift and...the only professional live Streetlight Manifesto recording to date." On April 30, the album was released as planned, but due to conflicts with Victory Records, the band was prevented from releasing the album and fulfilling preorders from their own website. ==Track listing==

Streetlight Manifesto • Mike Brown – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, backing vocals • Jim Conti – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, backing vocals • Tomas Kalnoky – vocals, guitar, songwriting, photography • Pete McCullough – double bass, bass guitar, backing vocals • Nadav Nirenberg – trombone, backing vocals • Matt Stewart – trumpet, backing vocals • Chris Thatcher – drums Additional personnel • Mac Miller – gang vocals • Reade Wolcott – gang vocals • Brendt Rioux – gang vocals • Kevin Silva – gang vocals • Kasey Clark – gang vocals • Matt Medina – gang vocals • Kyle Clark – gang vocals • Peggy Burrows – gang vocals • Demian Arriaga – percussion • Phred Brown – keys • James Whitten – recording engineer • Matt Messenger – mixing • Alan Douches – mastering ==Charts==

In addition to the Streetlight Manifesto album, an acoustic version of the album titled The Hand That Thieves was planned to be released by Toh Kay and his acoustic trio. Tomas Kalnoky stated, "The albums may have the same song titles, lyrics and chord progressions, but the similarities end there. The album has a laid back, late night, lazy feel - something to put your feet up to, when you're not quite in the mood for the ball of frenetic energy that is Streetlight Manifesto." This album, along with the Streetlight version, was pushed back due to rewrites and label issues, and was planned to be released on April 30, 2013. On April 15, Tomas released his first full song from the album "With Any Sort Of Certainty" along with a music video animated by Scott Benson. However, the video has since been taken down by Victory Records. On April 21, 2013, according to Kalnoky's Twitter account, Victory records successfully had the Toh Kay version of the album removed from Amazon. On April 30, Kalnoky announced that the Toh Kay version of the album would not be released in the foreseeable future due to legal problems with Victory Records. According to the band's website, Victory Records had given Streetlight the choice between pulling the Toh Kay record completely or releasing it through Victory Records. The band and Kalnoky, who have shared a notoriously turbulent relationship with the record label, decided to cancel the record. Although the album was cancelled, it was leaked on its expected release day. CDs including the album and Toh Kay's music video of "With Any Sort Of Certainty" appeared during "The End of the Beginning" tour. The CD's metadata lists the title of the disc as "Fuck Victory" and a "FuckVictory.txt" file is included on the disc, with a message from "the Punk Rock Pirate". However, after their legal troubles were settled with Victory Records, the band announced their plan to release the album under Tomas' own Pentimento Music Company, though this has not happened as of 2026. Track listing == References ==