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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t debut
Anyone heard this band/album? Captainpoohat recommended them too me and I’m very thankful he did.
I can definitely feel the Neutral Milk Hotel comparisons a little. The vocal are delivered in a similar fashion to the Violent Femmes too. Incredibly melodic and uplifting… always making me smile. It is overtaking my own personal summertime 2005 pick (Envelopes) as the album to dance to while down the park on a Saturday afternoon.
Fav tracks? Hmmm, it’s a toughie but here goes. ‘In This Home On Ice’ has got to be one of THE pop tunes of the year. Layers of textured guitar making you feel all warm inside. ‘Over and Over Again’ with its jerky bass and simple synths, you would be forgiven for thinking Talking Heads had reformed… great stuff!
Anyone else into this?
I can definitely feel the Neutral Milk Hotel comparisons a little. The vocal are delivered in a similar fashion to the Violent Femmes too. Incredibly melodic and uplifting… always making me smile. It is overtaking my own personal summertime 2005 pick (Envelopes) as the album to dance to while down the park on a Saturday afternoon.
Fav tracks? Hmmm, it’s a toughie but here goes. ‘In This Home On Ice’ has got to be one of THE pop tunes of the year. Layers of textured guitar making you feel all warm inside. ‘Over and Over Again’ with its jerky bass and simple synths, you would be forgiven for thinking Talking Heads had reformed… great stuff!
Anyone else into this?
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I've said this already but I think my main gripe is that the whole thing sounds really contrived, it just so wants to be arty and quirky, even down to the name. The songs just seemed quite boring to me, and the vocals annoyed me a lot, in a really annoying David Byrne kind of way. (and I like the talking heads!)
Meh... I don't really feel the need to go back and listen to it, to be honest.
Download the Wolf Parade album, it's better :P
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"Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are a dull, watered down tenth generation copy of Talking Heads. Because of this they will be popular. We are not interested in them."
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They're good, but not anything particularly superamazingspecial. PF trying to make another Arcade Fire? Maybe, maybe not. The whole "the new Arcade Fire" tag is used waaay too much now; just a random freak occurence that isn't likely to be repeated.
Get The Most Serene Republic album instead, it just came out in the US on Arts & Crafts and it is top-notch.
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I like the CYHSY album. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool cynic myself but some of the dismissive opinions are a bit sad, in the proper sense of the word.
Thinking of checking out that Most Serene Republic though...
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And i find clap your hands... boring.
Do you find this impossible to believe ?
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s'good.