albums of the decade - 81. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

81. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)

Oh the buzz! Oh the hype! The Pitchfork melodrama! Then surprise, surprise, the attention wanes and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are left alone to get a record deal, to get some cash to eat some meals. This debut album was originally self-pressed to a few hundred copies, but they had to rush out thousands more, like a chef would with hot-cakes. From start to finish, the music is as 'indie' as can be, by the American definition at least. By that, we're not talking Blur or Bristish Sea Power, but instead Wolf Parade, Yeasayer et al. Music for the hipster. Clap your hands for these guys for starting that whole trend of a fashionably nasally way of singing. Great band: you can drink from your hip flask / get joined at the hip / stroke your beard and shake your hips to this band, but it don't mean you no hipster.