Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Only Run - VINYL LP

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Tourist - 'The Tourist' nods to Alec Ounsworth's musical heroes-a group that includes artists such as John Cale, Robert Wyatt, Tom Waits and Nick Cave. However, this album also shows a natural progression from previous records. 'Better Off' and 'The Vanity Of Trying' are rich, keyboard-augmented songs, while 'A Chance To Cure' and 'Ambulance Chaser' are rhythmically askew, and the sighing 'Loose Ends' is delicate, acoustic-based folk-rock.

Digitally remastered reissue. Banda Black Rio's Maria Fumaca is one of the strongest Brazilian samba-disco-funk-soul-fusion albums of all time. Banda Black Rio was formed in 1976 by the late Oberdan Magalhães in Rio de Janeiro. They revolutionized 'black instrumental music' at the time with their Brazilian re-interpretation of soul, jazz, funk and disco grooves, inspired by the likes of Tim Maia and reminiscent of Kool & The Gang and Earth Wind & Fire during their most on-point period of the 1970's. Maria Fumaca is the group’s first album, originally released by Atlantic in 1977; a record that bought the group worldwide fame. The title track is a real stand-out for us and a long term firm favorite. 'Miss Cheryll', more of a disco/ AOR jam, was released by RCA UK in 1980 as the track become popular within several London scenes. Maria Fumaca features in a list of the 100 greatest Brazilian albums of all time published by Rolling Stone Brazil, coming in at #38.

What are we to make of the world? In many ways, the title New Fragility perfectly sums up our collective state of unease and anxiety, but it's particularly apt for singer songwriter Alec Ounsworth AKA Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and the trauma he's spent the best part of three years processing. InchIt's pretty personal, Inch says Ounsworth. InchIt's about what I think we're all experiencing at the moment, certainly here in the United States anyway - trying to move forward amidst an almost cruel uncertainty.Inch Taken from the David Foster Wallace short story 'Forever Overheard', from the collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - InchYou have grown into a new fragility, Inch says the story's adolescent narrator - the title track documents what happens directly after a long relationship comes to an end, and what's discovered soon after. InchThere comes a period of making up for lost time in a changed world, Inch says Ounsworth, Inchand now is a time of predictable stupidity.Inch InchI never want to take another chance on anyoneInch, Ounsworth laments over a steady chug of muted guitar chords, delicate piano, and bustling drums. InchI can't believe the things I do to myselfInch. It's a song that takes a long, hard look at itself in the mirror and doles out some uncomfortable truths. Yet it also showcases what Ounsworth has become so masterful at - couching a certain level of seriousness in something fun. Something danceable. It's what's powered some of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's most memorable moments, and what makes New Fragility such an accomplished, affecting record. Powerful too, taking aim at what Ounsworth calls Inchthe failed democratic experiment that is the United States of AmericaInch and the supine hypocrisy of those currently in government. The first singles taken from New Fragility, the double A-side of 'Hesitating Nation' and 'Thousand Oaks', are deeply p