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New York's
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
(Alec Ounsworth on vocals)
became a sensation even before signing a recording contract, thanks to
favorable Internet reviews of their self-produced and self-released
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Clap, 2005).
A side effect of the funk-punk revival, they endorsed two pillars of the
new wave,
Television and the Talking Heads,
to conjur the guitars, vocals and rhythms of
Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away,
Over and Over Again and the hit
The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth.
Elsewhere
(the ballad Details of the War,
the psychedelic Heavy Metal, the bluesy Gimme Some Salt)
they sampled the sonic landscape of their age without truly clutching
any part of it.
Alec Ounsworth's vocals dominate the uneven
Some Loud Thunder (2007), whose best numbers (Satan Said Dance)
are a weak echo of the debut album.
Hysterical (2011) is downright boring, its "thumping" ditties
(Maniac, Ketamine and Ecstasy, Misspent Youth)
evoking a feeling of bored dejavu (thousands of bands play the exact same
songs) and a yawn-inducing ballad like In a Motel epitomizing
the quasi-comic dearth of ideas.
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