The Tourist

With renewed confidence, focus, and contentment, Alec Ounsworth delivers a consistently satisfying Clap Your Hands album, the best since their debut.

Alec Ounsworth goes solo and releases The Tourist, the fifth studio album by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

‘The Tourist’ is not without its charms, but you’re unlikely to stay for long.

Far from the journey its designer hopes it to be.

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Alec Ounsworth and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah return with their fifth album, The Tourist.

It's been over a decade since Clap Your Hands Say Yeah delivered their impressive self-titled album, embodying the spirit of the internet an...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have always done things on their own terms and The Tourist, the band's first release in three years and fifth overall, is no different.

The Tourist is a welcome shift from the amorphous electronica of the band’s last effort.

2017 is the year of renewal for former Pitchfork deities: Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, and now Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, whose 2005 debut caused major palpitations in the world of noughties blog rock.

Album Reviews: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Tourist

Can Alec Ounsworth's hip outfit justify a fifth outing? CD new music review by Russ Coffey