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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Indie rock
Indie rock

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is a Indie rock act. Their sound grew out of Allen Toussaint, The National, Kid Koala, Future Islands and Angel Olsen. Those roots explain a lot about how Clap Your Hands Say Yeah arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Tapes 'n Tapes, The New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire and Born Ruffians, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Poliça, Tapes 'n Tapes and The Little Ones, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, reaching back through Allen Toussaint and forward to Poliça. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Clap Your Hands Say YeahAllen ToussaintThe NationalKid KoalaFuture IslandsAngel OlsenSt. VincentDr. DogSnowdenPoliçaTapes 'n TapesThe Little OnesTapes 'n TapesThe New PornographersBroken Social SceneArcade FireBorn RuffiansIslandsUgly CasanovaYo La Tengo

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah connections

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah grew out of Allen Toussaint, The National, Kid Koala and Future Islands, shares an orbit with Tapes 'n Tapes, The New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene and Arcade Fire, went on to shape Poliça, Tapes 'n Tapes and The Little Ones. 38 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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