Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

2. Caroline, Please Kill Me – Coma Cinema

3. Trojan Horse – Cuddle Magic

4. Feels – Walrus

5. Don’t Watch Me Dancing – Little Joy

6. Change My Mind – Autolux

7. Summer of Our Discontent – Sugar Candy Mountain

8. Blonde on Blonde – Nada Surf

9. Dg Blowing a Clarinet – Chris Staples

10. Everything is Scary – German Error Message

11. Fear & Force – Vagabon

12. O.K. – Whatever, Dad

13. Awake – Boosegumps

14. Porch – Long Beard

15. Thinning – Snail Mail

16. #23 – IAN SWEET

17. Flower Glass – Hand Habits

18. Sun’s Out – Hoops

19. Marcel – Her’s

20. Drowsy – Banes World

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah announce new album, The Tourist, share “Fireproof”

Songwriter Alec Ounsworth on Feburary 24th will release a new album under Clap Your Hands Say Yeah named The Tourist. It will be his fifth full-length under the name and it is the follow-up to 2014’s Only Run.

The Tourist was recorded in a week at Dr. Dog’s studio in Philadelphia. It has 10 tracks and they were engineered by Nick Krill of The Spinto Band and mixed by Dave Fridmann, who also helped on two of CYHSY’s previous LPs. The album is said to be a “nod” to Ounsworth’s inspirations like Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Paul Simon.

“I wanted to experiment with packing lyrics,” Ounsworth said in a press release. “On this album, the lyrics and vocal melody effectively carry the songs, maybe more than anything else. Elvis Costello does this really well on his song ‘Beyond Belief,’ as does Paul Simon on his solo albums.”

Thematically, Ounsworth used The Tourist to reflect on an emotional couple of years, describing the songs as a “purge of certain emotional confusion that manifested itself in the last several years. I’d rather not say that it was a dark time, but it was a difficult time in my life — among the most difficult. But I needed and need to try to let it go. And this is how I let things go.” Ounsworth has shared “Fireproof” as a preview to the upcoming album, which he tells NPR is “really a be-careful-what-you-wish-for kind of song.” Stream it below.

The Tourist Tracklist:
01. The Pilot
02. A Chance To Cure
03. Down (is Where I Want To Be)
04. Unfolding Above Celibate Moon (Los Angeles Nursery Rhyme)
05. Better Off
06. Fireproof
07. The Vanity Of Trying
08. Loose Ends
09. Ambulance Chaser
10. Visiting Hours

Ounsworth will embark on a North American tour in support of the LP beginning in March.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 2017 Tour Dates:
03/02 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
03/03 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
03/04 – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
03/05 – Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
03/07 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
03/08 – Columbus, OH @ Skully’s Music Diner
03/09 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
03/10 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
03/11 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
03/12 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
03/14 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
03/15 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
03/16 – Boise, ID @ Neurolux
03/17 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
03/18 – Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt
03/19 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
03/21 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
03/22 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
03/23 – Visalia, CA @ Roxy Theatre
03/25 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
04/18 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
04/20 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
04/21 – Austin, TX @ The Sidewinder
04/22 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
04/25 – Ybor City, FL @ The Orpheum
04/26 – Miami, FL @ Gramps
04/27 – Orlando, FL @ The Social
04/28 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
04/29 – Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
04/30 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
05/02 – Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
05/03 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle Backroom
05/04 – Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry
05/05 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
05/06 – Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) – Arcade Fire

2. Under the Texas Sky – Ferraby Lionheart

3. X’s On Your Eyes – Nightmare and the Cat

4. 2 Atoms in A Molecule – Noah and the Whale

5. New Slang – the Shins

6. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa – Vampire Weekend

7. Mississippi Isabel – King Charles

8. Can’t Stop Now – Keane

9. Acts of Man – Frightened Rabbit

10. Relax, Take it Easy – MIKA

11. Thieves & Kings – the Peach Kings

12. Light Out – Javelin

13. Lovers -Brothertiger

14. Silver Screen – Beat Connection

15. I Wanna Go – Summer Heart

16. Corvette Cassette – Slow Magic

17. Tonight – Tourist

18. Lover’s Spit – Broken Social Scene

19. The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

20. Walking – The Dodos

Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

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