Clap Your Hands Say Yeah by Ian Shiver
Alec Ounsworth will release his next Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album at the start of next year.
Hesitating Nation and Thousand Oaks have been paired together as a double-A side single to preempt the release of New Fragility on January 29th 2021, Ounsworth admitting both are unusually politically motivated, citing Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood from the 2006 eponymous debut album as the only other similarly themed example in his canon.
“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 says, adding on 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.”