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New York's
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
(Alec Ounsworth on vocals)
became a sensation even before signing a recording contract, thanks to
favorable Internet reviews of their self-produced and self-released
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Clap, 2005).
A side effect of the funk-punk revival, they endorsed two pillars of the
new wave,
Television and the Talking Heads,
to conjur the guitars, vocals and rhythms of
Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away,
Over and Over Again and the hit
The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth.
Elsewhere
(the ballad Details of the War,
the psychedelic Heavy Metal, the bluesy Gimme Some Salt)
they sampled the sonic landscape of their age without truly clutching
any part of it.
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da Luca Criscuoli)
Il gruppo di New York Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Alec Ounsworth alla voce) è diventato una rivelazione prima ancora di firmare un contratto discografico, grazie alle recensioni favorevoli su Internet dell’autoprodotto e autodistribuito Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Clap, 2005). Come effetto a margine del revival funk-punk, essi hanno ricorso a due pilastri della new wave, i Television ed i Talking Heads, per far comparire le chitarre, il cantato e i ritmi di Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away, Over and Over Again e The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth. Altrove (la ballata Details of the War, la psichedelica Heavy Metal, la blueseggiante Gimme Some Salt) essi hanno campionato il paesaggio sonoro della loro epoca senza realmente afferrarne alcuna parte.
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