Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their self-titled debut album with an enormous tour and a vinyl reissue. The dates kick off in spring 2025 with a North American run that features exhibits at New York’s Webster Corridor and Los Angeles’ Regent Theater, earlier than Alec Ounsworth and the band head to Europe, Australia, and New Zealand to wrap issues up. To go together with the announcement, Ounsworth has shared the unique, 2004 model of “Heavy Metal”—a recording he says captures “a particular second in time—a younger group of fellows all piling into one resort room to get up and go to an actual studio (!) to attempt to give you one thing particular only for the enjoyable of it.”
Ounsworth added, in press supplies:
On the time, “Heavy Metallic” was meant to look alongside a small assortment of songs for use for an EP to be shopped round to label. We by no means thought that an album was doable on the time. Later, through the mixing of the EP, a call was made so as to add different songs. This last assortment of songs went on to be the primary album.
I assume I didn’t suppose this authentic model of “Heavy Metallic” sat very effectively on the album as soon as we began recording a number of the later songs (“The Pores and skin of My Yellow Nation Tooth,” “Is This Love?,” and so on.) so I made a decision the tune needs to be modified though the unique (as a standalone single) had all the time labored. Now that I hearken to the unique “Heavy Metallic” remixed and mastered, I notice it very effectively might (ought to?) have been on the album itself.
I actually like each variations of “Heavy Metallic,” however, 20 years later, I believe I’ve come to understand this one a bit of extra. The remainder of the album has this pleasure too in fact however the earliest songs communicate much more to a sure innocence round that point which I attempt arduous to not neglect.
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Clap Your Fingers Say Yeah:
01-31 Washington D.C. – The Atlantis
04-01 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
04-02 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
04-04 Ft. Price, TX – Tulip’s
04-05 Austin, TX – Scoot Inn
04-07 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
04-08 Los Angeles, CA – Regent Theater
04-09 San Francisco, CA – Unbiased
04-11 Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater
04-12 Seattle, WA – Crocodile Café
04-13 Vancouver, British Columbia – Biltmore Cabaret
04-15 Salt Lake Metropolis, UT – City Lounge
04-16 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
05-02 Saint Paul, MN – Amsterdam Bar and Corridor
05-03 Chicago, IL – Thalia Corridor
05-04 Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme
05-06 Toronto, Ontario – Nice Corridor
05-07 Albany, NY – The Egg
05-08 Somerville, MA – Crystal Ballroom
05-09 New York, NY – Webster Corridor
05-10 Philadelphia, PA – Union Switch
09-14 Leffinge, Belgium – Leffingeleuren Pageant
09-16 Dublin, Eire – Button Manufacturing facility
09-18 Paris, France – Gaîté Lyrique
09-19 London, England – EartH
09-20 London, England – EartH
11-05 Sydney, Australia – Metro Theatre
11-07 Melbourne, Australia – Northcote Theatre
11-08 Brisbane, Australia – The Triffid
11-11 Auckland, New Zealand – The Tuning Fork
