Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Debut Album w/World Tour & Upcoming Reissue

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH CELEBRATE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF LANDMARK DEBUT ALBUM WITH EPIC WORLD TOUR AND UPCOMING REISSUE   GLOBAL HEADLINE RUN BEGINS MARCH 31, 2025 IN WASHINGTON, DC   TICKETS FOR ALL DATES GO ON SALE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22   ORIGINAL 2004 RECORDING OF ALBUM FAVORITE, “HEAVY METAL,” PREMIERES TODAY – LISTEN   SPECIAL NEW VINYL EDITION OF CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH ARRIVES EARLY NEXT YEAR ON THEIR OWN LABEL VIA SECRETLY DISTRIBUTION

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their landmark self-titled debut album with an epic world tour and exclusive new reissue. The first leg of the global headline run gets underway with North American dates beginning March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC and then performing 20 more shows including a very special homecoming performance set for May 10 at Philadelphia, PA’s Union Transfer. September will see Clap Your Hands Say Yeah crossing the Atlantic for a series of European dates in Belgium, Ireland, France, and the United Kingdom including a two-night stand at London’s EartH (September 19-20). The tour then heads Down Under for dates in Australia and New Zealand beginning November 5 at Sydney’s Metro Theatre. Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday, November 22. Additional dates – including further European shows and visits to Japan, Central and South America – will be announced soon. For complete details and ticket information, please visit cyhsy.com/live.   The 20th anniversary of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will further be commemorated with a special new reissue, arriving on limited-edition vinyl LP early next year on the band’s own label via Secretly Distribution, the defiantly independent home of Alec Ounsworth’s music for over two decades. The celebration officially gets underway with today’s premiere of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s original 2004 version of the fan favorite, “Heavy Metal,” available everywhere now. Recorded live at Pawtucket, RI’s Machines with Magnets Studios, the newly remixed and mastered track was recently discovered among the original project files and captures what Clap Your Hands Say Yeah founder and frontman Alec Ounsworth calls “a special moment in time – a young group of guys all piling into one hotel room to wake up and go to a real studio (!) to try to come up with something special just for the fun of it.”    “At the time, “Heavy Metal” was meant to appear alongside a small collection of songs to be used for an EP to be shopped around to labels,” Ounsworth says. “We never thought that an album was possible at the time. Later, during the mixing of the EP, a decision was made to add other songs. This final collection of songs went on to be the first album.    “I guess I didn't think this original version of ‘Heavy Metal’ sat very well on the album once we started recording some of the later songs (‘The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth,’ ‘Is This Love?,’ etc.) so I decided the song should be changed even though the original (as a standalone single) had always worked. Now that I listen to the original ‘Heavy Metal’ remixed and mastered, I realize it very well could (should?) have been on the album itself.    “I really like both versions of ‘Heavy Metal’ but 20 years later I think I’ve come to appreciate this one a little more. The rest of the album has this excitement too of course but the earliest songs speak even more to a certain innocence around that time which I try hard not to forget.”   LISTEN TO “HEAVY METAL” (ORIGINAL 2004 VERSION)   # # #   CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH 20TH ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR 2005

MARCH 31 – Washington DC – The Atlantis   APRIL 1 – Carrboro, NC – Cat's Cradle 2 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West 4 – Ft. Worth, TX – Tulip’s 5 – Austin, TX – Scoot Inn 7 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom 8 – Los Angeles, CA – Regent Theater 9 – San Francisco, CA – Independent 11 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater 12 – Seattle, WA – Crocodile Café 13 – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret 15 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge 16 – Denver, CO – Bluebird      MAY 2 – St. Paul, MN – Amsterdam Bar and Hall 3 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall 4 – Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme 6 – Toronto, ON – Great Hall 7 – Albany, NY – The Egg 8 – Somerville, MA – Crystal Ballroom 9 – New York, NY – Webster Hall 10 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer   SEPTEMBER 14 – Leffinge, BE – Leffingeleuren Festival † 16 – Dublin, IE – Button Factory 18 – Paris, FR – Gaité Lyrique 19 – London, UK – EartH 20 – London, UK – EartH   NOVEMBER 5 – Sydney, AU – Metro Theatre 7 – Melbourne, AU – Northcote Theatre 8 – Brisbane, AU – The Triffid 11 – Auckland, NZ – The Tuning Fork   † FESTIVAL APPEARANCE   # # #