The Tourist - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2017)

Ah, the aughts: a grand epoch when white boys with guitars were still part of the mainstream music conversation, and the future late-cretaceous era of lo-fi Dad Rock was committed to badly encoded mp3s on blogs all across the Internet.

Which, I guess, has little to do with this 2017 album by veterans of that scene. CYHSY’s first record put them on the map as one of the top practitioners of blog-rock, but they were never a gimmick-based band. They’ve cleaned up nicely since then, and started recording with a less DIY aesthetic. The 2010s version of the band is probably less distinctive than the mid-aughts version, but it’s also a lot more musically accomplished and a lot more fun to listen to.

Tracks I Liked

Down (Is where i want to be) - Kind of a Pixies-lite vibe with a bunch of nervous energy

Fireproof - honestly, when I heard this today I realized that I had thought it was an Alt J song. It slaps tho.

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