posted by Leigh on September 21, 2011
We only had to wait four years for Hysterical. Upon the first few listens, I wasn’t immediately drawn into the album like I was with the self-titled debut or Some Loud Thunder. For me, there was no immediately unforgettable refrain like “Satan Said Dance,” no stream of consciousness rambling instantly adhering to your psyche as in “Is This Love?” But, after about the fourth or fifth play of Hysterical, something grander steps out of the shadows, a slower compatibility and connection emerges and you see the forest, made up of all those individual trees, for the first time. I was irreversibly bonded with the music, with the lyrics, with the forest, in a way that was quite different from before.
Brooklyn’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has been with me since the beginning, forming part of the soundtrack of my life for the last six years. Not having seen them live since probably soon after 2007’s Some Loud Thunder, I was ecstatic to be able to hear them again at the Bowery Ballroom show in New York just last night, fresh off the release of Hysterical. They played the perfect mix of old and new, and didn’t just reproduce the songs as they were recorded, but, rather, made each song a novel auditory experience for the listener, while never losing the comfortability of a favorite sweater.
It was difficult to decide which tracks from Hysterical to share below. “Siesta (For Snake)” and “Maniac” show off the fast and the slow, while both making it impossible to overlook the beauty and effect of Alec Ounsworth’s vocals, the given lyrical ingenuity and the unfaltering and driven musicianship. Try the whole album out for size. Let it grow on you like moss, and look down from time to time to appreciate the beauty of this soft green plant that is now a part of you forever.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Siesta (Downloaded 369 times)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Maniac (Downloaded 291 times)
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» Meaningless labels: Amazing Voice • Beautiful Lyrics • Clever Lyrics • Driven • Male vocal • Psychedelic
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November 30th, 2011 at 5:12 am
http://unumusic.bandcamp.com/track/sevilla
If you like them, you’d like this guy!