Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Welly well well well. Aren't we all very nice. I have never written a music review in my life. As I have no idea how to write one please bear (rawrrr!) with me. Since I'm not a music review website, (I'm actually some sort of being, human or something I think), I'm not reviewing music to find out if it's good or not. I already know it is good, and I like it. I'm reviewing it to suggest that you give it a listen, else why would I even post this. "Unfortunately I'm not righteous enough to actually buy the album" said Kevin as he mimed putting on an eye patch and throwing an invisible cracker to his invisible parrot Norman. Although I would gladly pay to see them live. Anyway, let me tell you all about it. Know now that I push play. And away, we go. Away.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah self-titled debut begins with an awkward twist of circus music reminding me of Professor Marvel gazing into the crystal ball in shades of grey from The Wizard of Oz. It's a catchy start to an album that seems very disconnected from this first track. Alec Ounsworth, lead vocal/guitarist, sings a little like David Byrne from the Talking Heads, letting the words he sings fly away in unexpected directions. I'd say the guitar work and music is up to par with most modern day indie stuff, subtle drum work and interlaced synthesized sounds played from who only knows. What makes them stand out is this combination of your slightly above average indie/prog rock stuff, with this Talking Heads thingy, and songs that resonate, even when they don't make sense, or when you can't understand the words like when Thom Yorke sings in Radiohead.

Lyrics that make sense words you can understand, who needs em? Not me. Leave that to Bono and his uncompromising vision of honesty, truth, and all around suckedness (that must be why he wears sunglasses every second of every day, fuckface). Really though, this is a very accessible album, and could probably be main streamish Modest Mousy something or other if they ever make it small time. I wouldn't hold out too much on seeing them on MTV any day soon (not that if they did make it on MTV you would actually see a music video anyway with all the "reality" TV crap they play on it). Really though, it covers a lot of bases and mixes a lot of genres and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is like a fancy French 5 course dinner I've never tried, with hints of Punk, Indie, Talking Heads, The Wizard of Oz, that Electric Light Parade I saw at Disneyland when I was 10, and is that cilantro I taste in this cranberry sauce? 01. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (the weird circus thingy), 02. Over and Over Again, 05. Details of War (probably the best song on here), and 11. Gimmie Some Salt are all notable tracks if your thinking about sampling them. If you are actually going to be like noble or something and pay for the album, you might not find it at Walmart, and would be better off going to some sort of high brow music snobbery place, or ordering it online from somewhere. I'd have to say though, "Nice ass clown, I give you a 9/10, just don't touch me."