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New Fragility

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

New Fragility

Sixth album from the Philadelphian indie rock musician Alec Ounsworth working solo since the band broke up in 2012

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
UK Release date
12/02/2021
US Release date
12/02/2021
  1. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    If you heed closely you’ll hear the sound of one man’s combing for moral redemption amidst societal and individual collapse. And that deserves applause
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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Emotionally fraught but musically generous. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    While one can certainly hear touchstones echoed throughout New Fragility, it has the singularity and focus of one artistic voice
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  4. 8.0 |   Vinyl Chapters

    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has really tailored each track for a specific purpose with strong lyrics to back it up and not afraid to let emotion guide the way forward. A hard listen at times, but well worth it
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  5. 7.7 |   Paste Magazine

    As tuneful and accessible as anything Ounsworth has written so far
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  6. 7.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    Alec Ounsworth lets go of expectations and writes for himself, and the result is arguably his best album in years
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  7. 6.4 |   Pitchfork

    Alec Ounsworth’s latest album is a world of divorce, substance abuse, callous indifference to murder, and also bittersweet nostalgia for that bygone indie-rock era that gave him a platform in the first place
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  8. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Both rewarding and their strongest for some time
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  9. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    It’s the likes of the gently strummed acoustic track Where They Perform Miracles that hits the hardest: a truthful and simplistic song in the midst of an emotionally turbulent and transitional album
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  10. 5.0 |   DIY

    It toggles between social awareness and slack harmonies in an interplay that never fully attains the unity it craves
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