Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New FragilityWhat are we to make of the world? In many ways, the title New Fragility perfectly sums up our collective state of unease and anxiety, but it's particularly apt for singer songwriter Alec Ounsworth AKA Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and the trauma he's spent the best part of three years processing. "It's pretty personal, " says Ounsworth. "It's about what I think we're all experiencing at the moment, certainly here in the United States anyway trying to move

part synthesizer porn and part history lesson

Rock' propelled the band back into the UK top 20 in January 1981

and in showcasing their unique sound built around Smokey Robinson's highly distinctive voice

Writer/director Wong Kar-Wai's emotional character study also stars Andy Lau

In The Invisible Man Appears

who completed it to the contentment of all those concerned

Joey Nepote

reverberant ether while his fried guitar careens dizzily and giddily

we'd be given a glimpse of hope in this fatalistic madness - a chance to be spared

This disc displays extremes of Howells' emotional language - from the intense and powerful Hymnus to the sprightly and rather flirtatious Wooing Song - communicated masterfully by Hickox and his associates

choral prayers and musical revelations

For The Good Ones' album