Clap Your Hands Say Yeah by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Pros: One of the best indie rock albums of the 00s
Cons: None

Depending on how the rest of the new bands from this decade shake out, I'm thinking about coining a phrase for indie bands who come out of nowhere with a brilliant album, receive a ton of critical praise and blog hype, live on good faith for a year or ...

Pros: Yep.
Cons: Nope.

Please disregard the text of this review. My views on music have changed in recent months. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY) is a band on the rise. Bred in New York, word about the goodness of their music was spreading in the blogging world, and ...

Pros: Lots of potential here and an overall great debut.
Cons: Takes a while to find the hooks and get into Ounsworth's vocals.

Nowadays the ever expanding indie music scene is constantly looking for the next band to send everyone swimming against the mainstream into a state of ecstasy. In 2005 the lead candidate formulated by indie media everywhere seemed to be the eponymous ...

Pros: Unique in almost every aspect.
Cons: Some of the songs tend toward sameness syndrome.

Using the leverage of the internet to turn word of mouth into a global phenomena, NYC band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah managed to vault onto the discussion list of the hipster community with their self-titled debut album. And good for them, I must say. ...

Pros: Accessible to close to any audience who is into pop music or rock.
Cons: Ounsworth's voice might not be as strong as hoped.

So many things have contributed to the eruption of the indie rock genre in the past few years. The iPod helped. The staleness of the abused nu-metal and alt-rock genres helped. The surprising amount of exposure given to the genre by typical mainstream ...

Pros: Unique fuzzy, folky indie rock done very well.
Cons: Somewhat short.

There is a certain, original genuis to this kind of CD. Any CD that starts of the with an opening track like this one is bound for greatness. Im not sure what the introduction is supposed to sound like but to me it sounds as if recorded in the 20's over ...