★★★★★
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - Only Run
Album:
Only Run
Artist: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Label: self-released
Release Date: June 03, 2014
www.ClapYourhandsSayYeah.com
BY JOHN B. MOORE
The changes are easy to catch early on with Clap Your Hand And Say Yeah's latest, Only Run...
- blurtonline.com
2014-06-12
★★★★★
"I think you had me confused with a man who lost his mind." sings Alec Ounsworth on first song of his new record, Only Run. This is certainly a fair assessment of where the press and listening public categorized the enigmatic singer of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah over the near decade since a brilliant self-titled debut. Sophomore record Some Loud Thunder proved challenging if, at times, unlistenable, and third record, Hysterical, was and wasn't what the title suggested...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-06-10
★★★★★
Wedged right in the middle of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's 2007 LP, Some Loud Thunder, was "Satan Said Dance." The track was as strange and disconcerting as its title, thanks in part to its heavy (and out of character) reliance on glitches, computer sounds and synths. Were these the sounds of the devil? Perhaps, yes, to indie darlings whose calling card had quickly become warbling vocals atop a stream of jangly guitars and disco-beat drumming...
- filtermagazine.com
2014-06-10
★★★★★
Album number four from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah sees leader Alec Ounsworth finding a renewed sense of optimism, and 'Only Run' does present an overall feeling of tentative euphoria. The band even manages to coax The National's Matt Berninger into delivering one of his least sombre performances on 'Coming Down'. Elsewhere, the bleeping synths of 'Little Moments' sound like an early Vince Clarke project while 'Impossible Request' strays into the same strident territory as classic James...
- www.clashmusic.com
2014-06-05
★★★★★
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's self-released, self-titled debut was a big deal. Musically, it occupied a similar space as albums released by Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire in the year prior -- good, if familiar tunes that scratched a persistent mainstream indie itch as MP3 blogs were beginning to dominate the conversation. The music -- while solid -- wasn't necessarily the remarkable thing...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-06-04
★★★★★
Depending on your disposition, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are either a band to pity or one to envy. Their much-adored 2005 self-titled debut continues to tower over their entire subsequent discography, but then ringleader Alec Ounsworth seems more comfortable lurking in the shadows than basking in the spotlight...
- pitchfork.com
2014-06-03
★★★★★
opinion by MICHAEL WOJTAS
Nearly a decade after Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's eponymous debut, the divisiveness that initially surrounded the band feels comically antiquated.
Those ringing blogger endorsements and the accompanying web backlash that once made CYHSY into an unavoidable conversation piece have since lost all novelty...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2014-06-03
★★★★★
It's fitting the first song on the new record is called 'As Always' because, as always, it's the sound of the guitar devotee's eminently thinkable mid-career move: go electronic. The agenda is set pretty starkly. A treated, mobius strip of a sustained note spools out into the distance, comes back, and reels out again for about 30 seconds. Across are all manner of bloops, treated and chopped up spoken word samples and pattering, 8-bit drum machines...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-05-30
★★★★★
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are essentially starting over, a situation more daunting than starting out. Their underrated sophomore LP Some Loud Thunder absorbed the inevitable backlash, but whatever momentum CYHSY could generate from critical reappraisal was squandered by a four-year hiatus, 2011's tepid Hysterical, and the subsequent departure of two band members...
- pitchfork.com
2013-07-29
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