Clap your hands say yeah

This might be one of the albums that will soundtrack 2006 for many people. The hype! train has been carrying this group through the music press for some time. They have been touted as the next Arcade Fire.

Clap your hands say yeah self-released their eponymous debut album last year. Their small initial pressing sold out very quickly. They have now been picked up by Witchita records in the UK to make the album more easily available.

It's good. Once you get past the idiosyncratic singing it is good. The music is propulsive enough to power the hype! train. Sheets of warm fuzz guitar with kraftwerk/neu style drums. Half-heard lyrics that create unusual pictures in your mind.

Stand out tracks for me include the skin of my yellow country teeth, is this home on ice and upon this tidal wave if young blood.

I can see where the Arcade Fire comparisons come from but I'm not totally convinced yet. However, the album is a grower and I will keep listening.

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