HANK ALTOGETHER:Our second Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! post-hiatus sighting is Uninhabitable Mansions, a Brooklyn-based super group. Robbie Guertin (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) sings and plays guitar. Annie Hart(Au Revoir Simone) sings and plays keyboards. Tyler Sargent (CYHSY) sings and plays bass. Chris Diken plays guitar. Doug Marvin (Dirty On Purpose) plays drums. Not only do they play music, but they also put out art and books and such. If it's anything like that killer cover art up there, I'm down.
The music (cuz it's not "We See for You") has more of that CYHSY punch to it than Alec Ounsworth's latest. The phrase pop gems come to mind, but what else would you expect when you drag out Annie Hart and put some CYHSY instrumentation behind them. It's less Bowie/Byrne, as Ounsworth turned the sound into, and more New Pornographers. Either way it sounds great to me.
Not only are they an art collective, Uninhabitable Mansions are nice enough to give us a free glimpse into an album, which is why I can write those preceding paragraphs. Enjoy!
The music (cuz it's not "We See for You") has more of that CYHSY punch to it than Alec Ounsworth's latest. The phrase pop gems come to mind, but what else would you expect when you drag out Annie Hart and put some CYHSY instrumentation behind them. It's less Bowie/Byrne, as Ounsworth turned the sound into, and more New Pornographers. Either way it sounds great to me.
Not only are they an art collective, Uninhabitable Mansions are nice enough to give us a free glimpse into an album, which is why I can write those preceding paragraphs. Enjoy!
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