20th Anniversary Album Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah celebrates the 20th anniversary of its historic self-titled debut album in 2025 with a world tour performing the album in its entirety along with other surprises and an exclusive new reissue. Self-released in the United States in June 2005, the album Clap Your Hands Say Yeah proved to be a true phenomenon and earned enthusiastic praise around the world.

Few bands have burst onto the scene as brilliantly as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Their debut defined a scene, an era and marked a paradigm shift in the music industry. But Clap Your Hands Say Yeah achieved all this and more; It's no surprise that the band's self-titled first album is still considered one of the best and most influential independent releases of the 2000s.

Featuring a heady mix of lush, melodic indie rock and pop, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah repurposed a host of classic musical references for a new generation of music fans. The band, formed around the enigmatic singer-songwriter Alec Ounsworth, achieved that rare alchemy by synthesizing a dizzying array of styles and influences into something entirely their own. And that something was absolutely glorious, full of droning synths, high-pitched guitars, boisterous drums, and Ounsworth's lilting, howling voice.