Clap Your Hands Say Yeah comes back to life, we give you some demos

My workload for finals has greatly affected my sleep schedule, overall happiness factor, as well as hindering my ability to find time to get a post up. Thankfully some new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah songs were released this week from their forthcoming Some Loud Thunder, out January 30, which seriously brightened me up a few times in the last few days. With this little preview of the album, it seemed fitting to throw out a couple demos that CYHSY frontman Alec Ounsworth put together before the release of the bands debut. Enjoy listening to the progression of these songs over the years of reworking them.

Here's the tracklist:
1. Some Loud Thunder
2. Emily Jean Stock
3. Mama, Won’t You Keep Them Castles in the Air and Burning?
4. Love Song No. 7
5. Satan Said Dance
6. Upon Encountering the Crippled Elephant
7. Goodbye to Mother and the Cove
8. Arm and Hammer
9. Yankee Go Home
10. Underwater (You and Me)
11. Five Easy Pieces

[mp3] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Underwater (You and Me) (New Song)
[mp3] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Love Song No. 7 (New Song)
[mp3] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Underwater (You and Me) (Demo)
[mp3] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Heavy Metal (Demo)
[mp3] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and Over (Demo)
[mp3] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Details of the War (Demo)

Pick up CYHSY fall tour EP over at Insound. Check out another new tune, "Satan Said Dance", over at their Myspace.