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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah completed nearly an entire band life cycle in just four years. Their 2005 debut album Clap Your Hands Say Yeah shot through the blogosphere, and they received countless accolades from the press – in particular, drawing comparisons to early Talking Heads. But after their 2007 follow-up Some Loud Thunder got a lukewarm reception, the group floundered, and each member went off to work on their own projects.

“There’s no way I expected that,” keyboardist Lee Sargent says about the hype surrounding the first album. “You can’t really manufacture that kind of buzz – well maybe you can, but I don’t know how to do it.”

So it was a bit of a surprise when the band announced the release of their new album, Hysterical, due out next week (watch the album trailer below). “None of us really believed that we were finished as a band,” Clap Your Hands frontman Alec Ounsworth tells Rolling Stone. “I think we just happened to run out of steam.” Read the rest of this entry »