In honor of the 20th anniversary of their landmark, self-titled debut album, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY) is going on a worldwide tour performing the album from beginning to end, with support from Knifeplay and other surprises, including an exclusive new reissue. A heady blend of leftfield pop and melodic, exuberant indie rock, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is unquestionably among the finest and most influential independent releases of the early 2000s. The celebration officially gets underway with the premiere of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s original 2004 version of the fan favorite, “Heavy Metal”. The newly remixed and mastered track was recently discovered among the original project files and captures what Clap Your Hands Say Yeah founder and frontman Alec Ounsworth calls “a special moment in time – a young group of guys all piling into one hotel room to wake up and go to a real studio to try to come up with something special just for the fun of it.” In addition to the digital anniversary release featuring the original version of “Heavy Metal,” a special deluxe reissue will arrive on limited edition vinyl, released on CYHSY’s own label via Secretly Distribution, the defiantly independent home to over two decades of Ounsworth’s music.
