Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - 4 new songs

Love the album. Middling on the boots posted on YANP. And like everyone else, hate the name. Here's McSweeney's take on their name.

 

I knew the backlash was starting when I saw someone at CMJ in Lincoln Center with a t-shirt that said:

CRAP YOUR PANTS SO WHAT.

I'd worship that band if they'd get a singer who didn't try so hard to sound weird.

 

I've yet to buy or hear the whole album, and I was subconsiously resisting the band because I have such deeply embedded impervious-to-hype, nothing-is-new-pour-moi, c'mon-how-good-can-they-really-be issues that I've been working through with my alt-analrapist* for years (see, Fire, Arcade).

But I caved over Tidal Wave of Young Blood and Yellow Teeth -- and just in the last week I've been marvelling at Is This Love and Gimme Some Salt. The new ones are just kinda hard to hear, recording-wise.

But I'd still wear that Crap Your Pants shirt.
Because Funny is Funny.



(...it's pronounced ah-nahl'-ruh-pist)

 

I like every song on their album but the first one. WTF is up with the weird carnival sound???

I'll have to download this new stuff when I get a chance.

 

I don't think CYHSY are a crap band, but I'm one of those people who can't get past Ounsworth's voice. But I like Lou Reed, so WTF do I know?

 

I'm glad to see "Satan Said Dance" out. It was my favorite song from their show I saw in late August.

 

CYHSY remind me of The Talking Heads. At least the vocals do.