Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (album)

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah cover
Studio album by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Released 2005
Recorded 2005
Genre Indie rock
Length 38:36
Label Self-released
Producer Adam Lasus and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (tracks 1, 4, 6–8), Keith Souza (tracks 2, 3, 5, 10–12), and Tyler Sargent (track 9)
Professional reviews
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah chronology
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
(2005)		 Some Loud Thunder
(2007)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is the debut album by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, self-released in the U.S. in 2005, and released in the UK on 23 January 2006 by Wichita Recordings. Produced and mixed by Adam Lasus, the album and the band rose to fame after buzz and attention built up on various MP3 blogs and a very positive ("9.0/10") review from influential music website Pitchfork Media.

The success of the album started after bassist Tyler Sargent began mailing out copies of the album from his apartment. At last count, the album has sold upwards of 200,000 copies. Although the band still has no official record deal in the U.S., they have signed a distribution deal to make the album available to a wider audience. In the UK, the band signed to independent record label Wichita Recordings.

While Pitchfork Media's glowing review of the album in July 2005 has been credited with giving the band their start, the album's opening track "Clap Your Hands!" was included on Pitchfork Media's list of "15 Worst Releases of 2005". Pitchfork Media's editor Ryan Schreiber dismissed the track as a "classic shitty underground rock pose."[1]

The song "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" was featured on a 2005 episode of the NBC show The Office.

[edit] Track listing

All lyrics written by Alec Ounsworth. All music written by Alec Ounsworth except where indicated.

  1. "Clap Your Hands!" – 1:48
  2. "Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away" – 3:24
  3. "Over and Over Again (Lost and Found)" – 3:09
  4. "Sunshine and Clouds (And Everything Proud)" – 1:02
  5. "Details of the War" – 3:30
  6. "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" – 5:43 (Ounsworth, Lee Sargent, Guertin, Tyler Sargent, Greengalgh)
  7. "Is This Love?" – 3:11
  8. "Heavy Metal" – 4:01
  9. "Blue Turning Gray" – 1:17 (Tyler Sargent)
  10. "In This Home on Ice" – 3:58
  11. "Gimmie Some Salt" – 3:03
  12. "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood" – 4:34

[edit] Bonus tracks

The UK release, on Enhanced CD, contains a link to bonus live tracks. All songs were recorded live at The Black Cat in Washington, D.C. on 18 October 2005.

  1. "Is This Love?"
  2. "Details of the War"
  3. "Gimmie Some Salt"
  4. "In This Home on Ice"

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pitchfork Media's 15 Worst Releases of 2005