Disc 1: Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah!

Out of all the Cds that I purchased the other day, this was the mystery Cd. The bands name is Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah! I had vaguely remembered listening to a track or two of the album, but could not remember if I had liked it. So many times it was on the verge of being discarded for another Cd that I was more sure about. Something just kept buzzing in my head that should go and take the risk anyways. Then I took my meds and the buzzing stopped. But I still held on to the Cd regardless. As it turns out... what I had heard via Towerrecords.com was not something I liked. Fortunately I forgot. The album sounded nothing like when listening on my home system as opposed to the crappy Tower Records windows version of the song on my computer. I'd like to take this moment to say: Though I like the service the Tower Records site provides with allowing you to listen to 30 seconds of music for free of almost any band you can think of, but its at the cost of the music sounding like it's being sent to your computer via a tin can and some string.

When listen to the band there is a air of familiarity to the sound. What is this sound? The Talking Heads. Which is great for me, being the BIG Talking Heads fan that I am. Now their sound isn't some carbon copy of an iconic band... it's more like a riff. To put and accurate description of the vocals would be to say; It's like David Byrne if David took a lot of pain killers. Sort of this half sung, half closed mouth "cause it take too much effort to open it" sound. The album is fun and festive. Not too cheeky or jokey, but not moopy or self important. It is everything amodern indie rock fan is looking for.

I'm not a big fan of breaking down an album track by track, so I will just leave this posting with a suggestion. The album is a buy. As a fan of music you should own this and attempt to follow their career. At least till they sell out and I'm writing a blog post about "How they out lived their relevance". Stay tuned for more.