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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah celebrate the 20th anniversary of their landmark self-titled debut album with a worldwide tour and an exclusive new reissue, all over 2025.A heady blend of leftfield pop and melodic, exuberant indie rock, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is unquestionably among the finest and most influential independent releases of the 2000s. The celebration officially gets underway with the premiere of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s original 2004 version of the fan favorite, “Heavy Metal”. The newly remixed and mastered track was recently discovered among the original project files and captures what Clap Your Hands Say Yeah founder and frontman Alec Ounsworth calls “a special moment in time – a young group of guys all piling into one hotel room to wake up and go to a real studio (!) to try to come up with something special just for the fun of it.” Besides the digital anniversary release featuring “Heavy Metal”’s original version, a special deluxe reissue arrives on limited edition vinyl LP early 2025 on CYHSY’s own label via Secretly Distribution, defiantly independent home to over two decades of Alec Ounsworth’s music.
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April 2nd 2025
They were great! Only down sides were the original show was booked for the Atlantis a much smaller venue. I purchased tickets the minute they went on sale and was excited to see them in such an intimate setting. His voice which is incredible was drowned out by the band. I was not the only one that commented on that. But honestly great show!
Washington, DC@9:30 Club
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Biography
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is a band that makes music and travels from place to place.
In any discussion regarding songwriters and lyricists of 21st-century indie music, Alec Ounsworth and his moniker, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, will feature prominently. Few have been as consistently brilliant, eclectic, and intimate; fewer still remain defiantly independent, refusing to sign deals that compromise artistic vision. That is what characterizes Ounsworth’s oeuvre, especially the lifetime project he initiated sometime in the early 2000s, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. And with each release since its landmark self-titled debut, he has refined and broadened his sound, indulging an ever wider set of influences.
Prolific and enigmatic as ever, his recent works marry the quirky, left-field spirit of the early years with a well-earned confidence, and grander sense of scale and ambition. Always heading down new avenues of song arrangement and organic connection to his audience, after nearly two decades Ounsworth remains one of music’s most distinctive voices.
The upcoming album New Fragility (Feb 12, 2021 CYHSY/Secretly Distribution), including the advance singles Hesitating Nation / Thousand Oaks and Where They Perform Miracles, was produced by Alec Ounsworth, with additional production from Will Johnson, recorded by Britton Beisenherz in Austin, TX, mixed by John Agnello in New Jersey, and mastered by Greg Calbi.
Read MoreIn any discussion regarding songwriters and lyricists of 21st-century indie music, Alec Ounsworth and his moniker, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, will feature prominently. Few have been as consistently brilliant, eclectic, and intimate; fewer still remain defiantly independent, refusing to sign deals that compromise artistic vision. That is what characterizes Ounsworth’s oeuvre, especially the lifetime project he initiated sometime in the early 2000s, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. And with each release since its landmark self-titled debut, he has refined and broadened his sound, indulging an ever wider set of influences.
Prolific and enigmatic as ever, his recent works marry the quirky, left-field spirit of the early years with a well-earned confidence, and grander sense of scale and ambition. Always heading down new avenues of song arrangement and organic connection to his audience, after nearly two decades Ounsworth remains one of music’s most distinctive voices.
The upcoming album New Fragility (Feb 12, 2021 CYHSY/Secretly Distribution), including the advance singles Hesitating Nation / Thousand Oaks and Where They Perform Miracles, was produced by Alec Ounsworth, with additional production from Will Johnson, recorded by Britton Beisenherz in Austin, TX, mixed by John Agnello in New Jersey, and mastered by Greg Calbi.
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