Clap Your Hands Reveal New Album, Post MP3s

The band has made two tracks available for download. "Love Song No. 7" is a long, languid piano ballad that sounds like Aerosmith's "Dream On"...if Aerosmith were intentionally creepy and liked accordions. "Underwater (You and Me)" shows off producer Dave Fridmann's signature majesty, with chiming bells and what sounds like pedal steel. Another track, "Satan Said Dance" is streaming on the Clap Your Hands MySpace right now, but we can't get it to work right now.

As previously reported, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah recently wrapped up a U.S. jaunt with Architecture in Helsinki and Takka Takka. The three groups' live tour EP, initially only sold on the road, can now be purchased online. Please note that the opener, "Some Loud Thunder", is also the title track on the new record.

Finally, we'd like to remind you that CYHSY will take on Europe alongside Cold War Kids and Elvis Perkins this February. Beforehand, however, they'll bring in the New Year at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom.

Some Loud Thunder tracklist:

01 Some Loud Thunder
02 Emily Jean Stock
03 Mama, Won't You Keep Them Castles in the Air and Burning?
04 Love Song No. 7
05 Satan Said Dance
06 Upon Encountering the Crippled Elephant
07 Goodbye to Mother and the Cove
08 Arm and Hammer
09 Yankee Go Home
10 Underwater (You and Me)
11 Five Easy Pieces

Dates:

12-31 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
02-02 Manchester, England - Academy *
02-03 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands *
02-04 Birmingham, England - Academy *
02-06 Cologne, Germany - Gebaeude 9 *
02-07 Brussels, Belgium - AB Club *
02-08 Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Paradiso *
02-09 Berlin, Germany - Postbanhof *
02-11 Hamburg, Germany - Knust *
02-12 Paris, France - La Cigalle *
02-13 London, England - Shepherds Bush Empire *

* with Cold War Kids, Elvis Perkins

MP3: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Love Song No. 7
MP3: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Underwater (You and Me)