Clap Your Hands Say Whaaaa…?

And here we have it, Alec Ounsworth (lead singer of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) has taken out his first solo album *round of applause*. It's called Mo Beauty and it contains ten wonderful, sublime, exceptional, great tracks, written in such an innovative style, that… Oh, never mind, just kidding. About the "innovative" part – the rest of the affirmation is proven to be correct.

After such a harsh beginning, you might think this album sucks. Well… To say that "it sucks" might be a little exaggerated, as none of the tunes makes you want to shut down the computer while screaming in pain, "OH MY GOD I HATE IT!" It has well-written instrumentals, nothing disturbing – from this point of view, everybody did a good job.

However, if there is nothing disturbing, there isn't actually anything interesting enough to make you want to listen to this album again. The sound is too predictable. You know that kind of song you could listen to every single day of your life, without ever remembering if you had listened to it before, or what its name was? Well, what you have here is a
great collection of such songs. The only song which makes an exception is Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (Song for New Orleans). It has an interesting guitar line, and Ounsworth's voice is not that annoying (I had to say that). Another song I liked was the last one, When You're No Eyes, although I couldn't say if I liked it because it was worth it or because it was the last song.

So the conclusion would be that Ounsworth released an album which is neither good, nor bad. It's as worse as it can be: in between. Oh well, if you need a pleasant background while you're working (for example) I guess this album would do. Remember to turn down the volume if you're allergic to high vocals.

*photo courtesy of Anti- Records.