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Tonight: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

April 16, 2016

Indie-pop outfit Clap Your Hand Say Yeah are coming to playing an intimate living room set  Buffalo tonight  CYHSY are in the midst of a living room tour exclusively for their core fans giving both a more personal performance and ensuring a great atmosphere. Don’t expect the full band, only lead singer Alec Ounsworth with a six-string. CYHSY sprung onto the scene in the 2000s with breakout tracks like “Yellow Country Teeth,” and “Satan Said Dance.” Tonight’s show is set to begin at 7pm so be on time. If you don’t have a ticket sorry you’re a bit late this time. Living Room shows are the new reunion tour, so be on the lookout for more intimate sets coming to Buffalo in the near future.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Only Run

June 3, 2014

“How can I open up?” asks Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s Alec Ounsworth on “As Always”- the opening track of the band’s latest release. He seems to have answered his own question, as the song- a cosmic cascade of phaser synths and Ounsworth’s signature howl- introduces the soaring, synthetic atmosphere of Only Run– the band’s first LP since 2011’s Hysterical. CYHSY has come a long way since their humble beginnings as a DIY-oriented indie band, but the overly electronic Only Run seems to lack that idiosyncratic energy that made them so buzzworthy in the first place. 2012 marked the departure of guitarist/keyboardist Robbie Guertin and bassist Tyler Sargent, which could offer explanation to such a wild reinvention of their sound. Lineup changes aside, the new album lacks substance, and left my appetite for classic Clap Your Hands hooks completely intact. However, Only Run does not come without its merits. “Impossible[...]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Coming Down” [ft. Matt Berninger]

April 1, 2014

Fuzzy and exhilarating psych rock single from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s upcoming album, Only Run, due out 6/3. Features the National’s Matt Berninger on supporting vocals. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/141751050″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]