Clap Your Hands Say Yeah shares two tracks and announces New Fragility album

"Hesitating Nation" and "Thousand Oaks" are the first two tracks that feature on New Fragility, and marks the first new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah outings since Alec Ounsworth released The Tourist (Bonus Tracks) last month.

Ounsworth says of the songs, "These songs are politically motivated, which is unusual for me. The only other politically motivated song I've written is "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood"."

Speaking about "Hesitating Nation" specifically, Ounsworth says, ""Hesitating Nation" is a song meant to convey my sense of disappointment and alienation with the rewarded mentality of getting ahead at all costs, inevitably to the detriment of those who didn’t sign up to be part of the experiment."

He adds of "Thousand Oaks", "In 2018, there was a shooting in Thousand Oaks, CA which killed 13 people. This song has to do with the impotence of the American government in the face of such tragedies."

Ounsworth continues, "I was watching an interview with Susan Orfanos, who lost her son. It was difficult to watch, and left me heartbroken for her and infuriated that so little has been done about gun control in the United States. The tragedy of this case is also that this particular shooting seemed almost ‘forgettable’, insofar as so many people have become inured and apathetic to such events."

New Fragility will follow 2017's The Tourist album. Ounsworth says of the LP, "It’s pretty personal. It’s about what I think we’re all experiencing at the moment, certainly here in the United States anyway - trying to move forward amidst an almost cruel uncertainty."

Tracklist:

1. Hesitating Nation
2. Thousand Oaks
3. Dee, Forgiven
4. New Fragility
5. Innocent Weight
6. Mirror Song
7. CYHSY, 2005
8. Where They Perform Miracles
9. Went Looking For Trouble
10. If I Were More Like Jesus