Its time for all the optimists in the room to clap their hands and say, ‘yeah’

A beacon of hope for independent musicians who want to release their music digitally, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah received mainstream success via the internet, when prominent indie music news outlets SaidTheGramophone.com and Pitchfork Media started talking about their music.

Around this time, smaller music bloggers also started sharing the fact that indie rock heavyweights David Byrne and David Bowie were both spotted at a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show. More info on their unlikely rise to fame here.

Currently, the band isn’t even based in one city. All members except for singer/gutiar player Alec Ounsworth live in Brooklyn. Ounsworth lives in Philly. They have since released two albums, though many of their tracks aren’t even available on pressed CDs. You’ll have to go to iTunes or Bittorent for many of their songs.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is another testament to preppie small-school indie rock. They now join the ranks of unlikely early-20′s rock stars, along with MGMT and Vampire Weekend.

I’ll clap to that. I might even let out a ‘Yeah’ or two.

Jams similar Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Details of the War:

Listen to The Handsome Furs – What We Had
Listen to TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me