REISSUE: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Self-Titled (20th Anniversary)

 

This year marks the 20^th anniversary of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s excellent eponymous debut album.  To celebrate the band has self-released via a partnership with Secretly Distribution, a limited deluxe gatefold edition of the album on clear 140g vinyl with yellow, white and pink splatter.  The deluxe package also includes a 7” flexidisc featuring the original 2004 version of standout track, “Heavy Metal” as well as peel-off stickers on the “design your own” album cover. 

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was released seemingly out of nowhere in 2005 and found immediate success from indie music blogs that touted their fun, ambitious and eccentric sound.  The band, led by Alec Ounsworth - and his unique voice - created a new brand of “kitchen-sink” indie rock beholden to Bob Dylan and Brian Eno and everything in between; with wobbly sea shanties (see, the carnival-barking opening track) and strange synths making their way into the raw yet immediately catchy indie-pop songs.  Standout tracks include, “Let The Cool Goddess Rust Away” with its buzzing, bass-led rhythm and the shuffling, danceable beat and bright, bendy guitar melodies of “The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth”; as well as “Is This Love” with its frantic energy, bubbling bass and ear-worming, sing-along refrain.     

For more info or to order: https://www.cyhsy.com/

Watch the newly-created video for “The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth” (the album’s first ever official music video) below; it was co-directed by filmmaker David M. Helman and David Henry.