Hysterical

AlbumSep 09 / 201112 songs, 49m 7s
Indie Rock Dream Pop Indie Pop
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5.6 / 10

After a five-year hiatus that's been described as something of a fact-finding mission for their true identity, Alec Ounsworth and co.'s third album casts them as the very thing their detractors claimed them to be so long ago.

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“Hysterical” might have been an apt descriptor for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah several years and a couple of albums ago. The indie-pop outfit’s eponymous 2005 debut was hailed as a harbinger of the old industry’s end—singer Alec Ounsworth and company recorded, released, promoted, and distributed the record without any…

7.0 / 10

It is nearly impossible to think, talk and especially write about Clap Your Hands Yeah without referencing the band's fantastic, albeit drastically overhyped, 2005 debut. Both the music itself and the record label-less, internet-driven buzz have become something of indie rock folklore. The Philly-Brooklyn rockers essentially redefined what an indie band could be in the modern age with their self-titled, achieving a level of success that they themselves certainly never expected, and—based on frontman Alec Ounsworth's well-documented reclusiveness—probably didn't even want in the first place. However, that album ha...

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8 / 10

After 2007’s awkward ‘Some Loud Thunder’, the Brooklyn indie rock wannabes decided on self-imposed hibernation and a bout of prolonged navel-gazing.

The arty New York quintet's attempt to crossover is hampered by a dearth of hooks, writes <strong>Phil Mongredien</strong>

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And yet, for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – believe it or not – this is their actual story.

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