"Hysterical" Album cover, © Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

CYHSY first came together in 2004 and quickly earned critical and popular acclaim with the 2005 release of their self-titled (and self-released) debut album. The album included hits such as ‘The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth’, ‘Over and Over Again (Lost and Found)’ and ‘Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood’ catapulted them from playing for small crowds to headlining major gigs and selling more than 125,000 copies – without a label. How did this unassuming Brooklyn band generate all that applause?
 

 

 
It remains one of the internet’s biggest individual success stories in music. They managed to get onto an endless list of popular blogs and received a positive review from Pitchfork Media who featured them in their ‘Best New Music’ list. The band gained further recognition when industry heavyweights, David Bowie and David Byrne were identified as fans of the band.
 
Hysterical Music Video

 

Hysterical is the bands third album and came after a brief hiatus that the band took following two very successful albums and a few years of non-stop touring. With its elegant hooks, simmering atmospherics, and uncommon use of space and intensity, Hysterical widens the band’s idiosyncratic formula, incorporating a remarkably expansive tidal wave of sound, all multi-layered keyboard tracks and big, booming drums. Imbued with sweeping synthesizers, juddering bass, and all manner of percussive dynamics, songs like ’Same Mistake,’ ‘Misunderstood,’ and the elongated piano-pumping epic, ‘Adam’s Plane’ are marked by inventive and boldly articulated arrangements that form a veritable vortex of melody and rhythm.

With Hysterical, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah came together and crafted something that feels fresh, invigorating and new, no less so than to the band themselves.

Even after three records, it almost feels like the beginning. (Ounsworth)

© Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Competition

We have ONE dbl ticket to give away for the Jozi gig and ONE dbl ticket to give away for the CT gig! Here’s how you can win:

1. Like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and one small seed Magazine & TV on Facebook.

 

2. Join either the Cape Town event or the Jozi event on Facebook, and then update your status tagging what event you want to attend including a mention of @one small seed Magazine & TV and a link to this post.

 

3. Tweet @cphsyband and @onesmallseedSA and specify your #CITY

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Tour dates for South Africa:
Cape Town:
13th April – Wittebome Civic Centre, Rosemead Avenue, Wynberg. 8pm

Johannesburg:
14th April – Town Hall, The Street, Newtown. 8pm.

Tickets
Tickets for the first tour of the series are available from Web Tickets. Be sure to be quick as the earlier you buy tickets the cheaper they are.
Early bird: R275
Pre-sale: R325
Regular: R375

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CYHSY, image: hitcrave.com