Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are the gorgeous gangly arty adolescents out of BRKLYN that have me enraptured just now. It's like The Feelies pulse is back with renewed energy. Their site is here http://www.clapyourhandssayyeah.com/news.php
I'm mad for them with their tightly wrapped scarves and throw-it-out-there pitch of a voice. Like Fiery Furnaces, they seem to polarize crowds, love 'em or leave 'em. I adore. It's city music to me, insistent, individual but a part of some engine, joyous and defiant -- "New York Calling At The Bottom of the Ocean..." sung over the edges, splashing around the song like a cocktail in a glass. I've never been to Brooklyn. The first posting this month was a dismissal of NYC. Here's Clap Your Hands Say Yeah changing a mind. YEAH.