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clap your hands and say feelies
Read "Joseph A Kauzlarich" 's review, it is close to spot on. I'd only add that a few songs touch on transcendence (not an easy task in this poseur-filled market), echoing some of the Feelies great moments. Read the Amazon review/comments of The Feelies "The Good Earth", a better record/even more transcendent. I read an interview w/ Clap lead singer & he came off as a poseur-artist--we have no influences. Give me a break. Ok, trust the art, not the artist. David Byrne vocals; Feelies guitars; not bad at all! Notables: "Let The Cool Goddess Rust Away," "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood," "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth," "Over and Over Again." Oh... this is better than Arcade Fire.
Disappointing
The music is great. Simple, clean driving beats with a new age sensibility. Great stuff. The vocals, however, are a different story. It's all about David Byrne infused with the Violent Femmes; it doesn't mesh well. If you can listen to the nagging "Is This Love" all the way through you have more patience than I do. There's a line between kitsch and bad music, and this band often crosses that line. When they're great, it's pretty good, but when it's bad, it is unlistenable.
Something we've all been craving, waiting for....
Just when you thought it was safe to retire the alternative genre, it gets reinvented, and in a big way. Drawing from countless influences, one cannot miss the David Byrne-like vocals, but are they really?I hear plenty of Tom Verlaine and Television too. I hear the driving pop of joy Division. I can't get away from the infectious and raw power of the hit track "Skin of my Yellow Country Teeth", it is simply a brilliant pop song that you just don't hear every day. It builds and it deserves your attention as you drive down a lonely country road, wind in your hair. CYHSY blows away fluff like The Strokes or Franz Ferdinand. You can Strokes it for a short while, but CYHSY is Viagra music, its gonna be around a long, long time. Other favorite tracks, "In the Home of Ice" and "Let the Cool Goddess..."
