TWENTY/SOME LOUD THUNDER/CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH!
Take that, rewind it back! Fall 2005. Whisperings. Talks. Hearts a twitter. An echo, a stain. If your musical radar was finely attuned to that which was happening and hip, then chances are you were familiar with and/or aware of this little band that could from Brooklyn, New York, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! Homegrown with a meager budget and no label big wigs to constrain them, CYHSY burst onto the scene with quite the musical finesse and batch of songs to back them up. Skip to the end. January 2007. Release of album number two. Whisperings. Buzz. Disappointment and abandonment. No echo. No stain. I'll stand up and say it too. I backed off. I cooled down. I moved on to [what I thought at the time was ] bigger and better things. And then I came back and got swept away in the lo-fi, DIY soundscapes of Some Loud Thunder, an album that bristles at the seams with inventive musicality, and creativity. An accordion here [Upon Encountering the Crippled Elephant], a swelling harmony there,[the layered vocal harmonies that provide backup on Emily Jean Stock], ruckus stopping bar room anthems, [Yankee Go Home], and one of the loveliest "fuck off" songs to be put on record all year, Mama, Won't You Keep Them Castles In The Air And Burning? that swims [yes, swims] along to the beat of its drum. Surpises abound, hitting you at every turn. It may take a minute or two for the deep sea level grandiosity of it all to hit you, but when it does, boy does it ripple, loud and unexpected, like some loud thunder.*
KEY TRACKS: Mama, Won't You Keep Them Castles In The Air And Burning?/Satan Said Dance/Yankee Go Home
*You totally saw that one coming right?
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