Feb 09 2007

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — Some Loud Thunder

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 10:15 am

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Some Loud Thunder
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; 2007
Rating: 7.1

There have been few instances within the indie rock subculture where the hipsters and rock snobs have been able to push aside their overwhelming cynicism and grasp the merest glimmer of hope and optimistic thinking in their sad, depressing little world. And if you do some digging into those good times, one quickly realizes that everything revolves around indie rock’s oft-decried and regularly-lampooned addiction to proletarian idealism; i.e., “The Man tries to keep ‘real music’ down, but we’re the only ones who keep it alive, not matter what radio stations play.” For instance, Wilco’s rise from the ashes of a corporate beat-down to release their acclaimed Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in 2002 marked a triumph of the music over the machine. And with every album that Radiohead released on Capitol, people stood up to cheer the victory of artistic integrity over the supposed necessity of pushing a single to the radio and indulging in PR campaigns.

But nothing could top the accolades and acclaim the gushed forth out of every possible pore in the indie rock body when the Brooklyn/Philadelphia-based band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY) burst onto the scene. Continue reading “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — Some Loud Thunder”