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The 55 Best Albums of 2014 (45-55)

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Back from vacation and back on the horse.  I will be attending Sundance next week and will keep on top of all the music shenanigans happening.  Until then, let’s finish off 2014 the right way.

Here are the 55 Best Albums of 2014 (45-55):

45. Kele - Trick
46. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Only Run
47. Phantogram - Voices
48. Metronomy - Love Letters
49. The Faint - Doom Abuse
50. Death From Above 1979 - This Physical World
51. PS I Love You - For Those Who Stay
52. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There?
53. Tom Petty - Hypnotic Eye
54. Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Phosphorescent Harvest
55. Pixies - Indie Cindy

Buy These albums now!!

 

 

The 11 Best Songs By Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

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Fun Fact:  CYHSY’s debut album was self-released and sold over 125,000 copies.

Here are The 11 Best Songs By Clap Your Hands Say Yeah:

  1. Hysterical (Hysterical)
  2. The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
  3. Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
  4. Is This Love? (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
  5. Same Mistake (Hysterical)
  6. Ketamine and Ecstasy (Hysterical)
  7. Over and Over (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
  8. Graceful Retreat (KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic)
  9. The Sword Song (Some Loud Thunder)
  10. Yesterday, Never (Hysterical)
  11. In This Home On Ice (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

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The 11 Best Songs By Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

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A recent article stated that most department stores a la Target, Best Buy, Walmart will completely remove CDs from their shelves by 2014.  It’s crazy to imagine that the entire physical element of the music industry will be gone in less than three years.  It will exist in space, in a place between nowhere and our ears.  Some will go kicking and screaming…clutching the physical form until their fingers are pried from its cold dead plastic case.  Others have already embraced the future.

This is something I admire about CYHSY…they were one of the first to embrace the internet and use it to their advantage.  Without a label, they conquered the music world by manipulating the empty space between our CD players and our headphones.  They jumped on the blogosphere and rode it into our hearts.  Now, on their third album…they’re not an indie rock underground secret…they’re a main stream staple.  Rolling Stone and Spin are pimping CYHSY’s new album…while ignoring Mick Jagger’s newest supergroup.  And they did it without needed to buy space on the CD shelves.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By Clap Your Hands Say Yeah:

1. The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

2. Is This Love? (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

3. In This Home On Ice (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

4. Cigarettes (BBC – This Home On Ice)

5. The Sword Song (Some Loud Thunder Bonus Track)

6. Satan Said Dance (Some Loud Thunder)

7. Over and Over (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

8. Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

9. Graceful Retreat/Some Loud Thunder (KCRW – Morning Becomes Eclectic)

10.  Heavy Metal (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

11.  Mama, Won’t You Keep Them Castles in the Air Burning? (Some Loud Thunder)

Buy the new CYHSY…Hysterical...now!!

11 Best Songs By Clap Your Hands Say Yeah:

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Starting tomorrow and over the next month, we’re about to be introduced to all the big final releases of the year.  So before the craziness is unleashed, I wanted to shortly stop and mention a couple of releases that have slid by unnoticed.  Both releases feature Alec Ounsworth (singer of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah).  First up is a full on solo release (Mo Beauty) on the Anti- label.  Which is ironic considering that CYHSY is “anti-label.” 
 
But that’s not all.  Alec has also formed his own indie supergroup called Flashy Pyhton, featuring members of Dr. Dog, Man Man, and the Walkmen.  Like CYHSY, Alec has chosen the label-less route…so…you can pick up their first release from their website.
 
Here are the 11 Best Songs By Clap Your Hands Say Yeah:
 
1.  Upon The Tidal Wave of Young Blood (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
2.  My Yellow Country Teeth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
3.  Is This Love?  (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
4.  The Sword Song (Some Loud Thunder)
5.  Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) –  (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
6.  Some Loud Thunder (Tour EP)
7.  Mama, Won’t You Keep Them Castles in the Air Burning? (Some Loud Thunder)
8.  Heavy Metal (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
9.  Satan Said Dance (Some Loud Thunder)
10.  In This Home On Ice (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
11.  Cigarettes (In This Home On Ice)
 
Buy Alec Ounsworth’s new solo album, Mo Beauty.  Also buy Alec’s new supergroup, Flashy Python.