Stylus singles jukebox contributor Mike Barthel writes about Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

I’m personalizing this, but it’s not personal. CYHSY are very much of my generation and demographic of musicians, and so a lot of what they’re incorporating feels very familiar. It’s just that they seem remarkably skilled at taking this set of influences and choosing all the worst ones, or rather, I guess, all the safe ones–all the ones I hear people talking about at a party or in a bar and immediately steer clear.