Earlier this week, I’m checking my e-mail when I see this little nugget pop up in my inbox:
Hello out There,
My name is Alec Ounsworth. I have completed a project called FLASHY PYTHON: SKIN AND BONES. You can listen to the album (and buy it if you feel so inclined)here.
As you may or may not know, and I suppose the reason I’m writing you directly, another project that I have been working on for several years now is called CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH. This is not that and that is this nor is it the other (the other often tragically confused with him or her) . . .
FLASHY PYTHON was conjured up and brought forth absolutely independently. It was completed recently and released even more recently to no acclaim nor discredit as no “news sources” were informed of its completion.
The idea is to present the project purely (while we still can) and let the individual make up his or her own mind which, as it seems to me, is perhaps the primary benefit in the otherwise alienating age of modern technology and communication.
I also have another album coming out on October 20th on Anti Records called Mo Beauty. You can hear a track from it over at stereogum. That is not this either.
Thanks for reading this email.
Sincerely,
Alec Ounsworth
www.pythonspalace.com
That made me feel special. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why I got this e-mail since I have never signed up for a CYHSY e-mail list or anything like that. I have both the self-titled release as well as the underrated Some Loud Thunder, but didn’t buy them directly from the band or anything. My guess is that I had to give my e-mail address a while back when I downloaded a demo of a new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah song that they played on Jimmy Fallon, but I really can’t remember…we’ll go with that. Whatever the case, this was a pretty cool way to announce the release of an album. You can click all the links provided in the e-mail above if you want to go stream the album. I’ll go ahead and say, if you haven’t heard any Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, you might want to prepare yourself for Alec’s very unique voice…it isn’t for everybody. I’ve listed to the stream a couple times and while I guess it’s nice to hear something new from Ounsworth, Skin and Bones certainly isn’t up to CYHSY par, but then again I doubt Alec will ever return to the level of the CYHSY debut.
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