The material is inspired by personal losses.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is back with Burnedhis next album, which will arrive on January 29, 2027 through CYHSYindependent label of the project headed by Alec Ounsworth. This release will mark their first album since New Fragility (2021) and, as a first preview, the musician shared “Fever of the Mind”simple that reveals the sonorous and emotional direction of this new stage.
“Fever of the Mind” It is the first single from the material and addresses themes such as depression, alienation and the burdens that are inherited from previous generations, while accompanied by an enveloping and melancholic atmosphere. According to Ounsworththis track It served as a sound and thematic guide to develop each of the songs on the album, creating an honest and close proposal.
Burned It will be the project’s seventh studio album and will feature ten songs that explore grief, heartbreak, and the personal experiences that have marked Ounsworth. Among them are the end of a relationship and the loss of close people, such as his mother, his uncle and a friend, events that became the starting point to create pieces that go through pain, confusion and the difficulty of facing absences.
With this new production created by Ounsworth in collaboration with Nick Krill, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah seeks to show a renewed facet of his career. The album was recorded in a home studio with the intention of achieving an approach close to live performance, with the intention of offering an organic sound that preserves the spontaneity and essence of in-person shows.
This is the cover and the tracklist:
01. “Seeing Eye”
02. “End of Winter”
03. “Fever of the Mind”
04. “Over the Hill”
05. “Burned”
06. “Touchy”
07. “Talking in My Sleep”
08. “Late Wish”
09. “Our Final Hour”
10. “Does Anyone Work Here?”
