Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Announces 2025 Tour In Support Of Debut Album 20th Anniversary Reissue

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah announced 2025 World Tour dates in support of the 20th anniversary reissue of their self-titled, debut album. The band led by Alec Ounsworth shared a recently re-discovered original 2004 recording of the album track, “Heavy Metal.”

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will embark on the North American leg of their Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 20th Anniversary Tour on March 31 at The Atlantis in Washington D.C. The band then heads south for shows in Carrboro (North Carolina) on April 1 and Atlanta on April 2.

Next comes a Texas run featuring performances in Fort Worth on April 4 and Austin on April 5. The tour continues out west with stops in Phoenix on April 7, Los Angeles on April 8 and San Francisco on April 9.

The Pacific Northwest leg brings CYHSY to Portland on April 11, Seattle on April 12 and Vancouver on April 13. The April dates conclude with shows in Salt Lake City on April 15 and Denver on April 16.

Following a brief break, the tour picks back up in St. Paul (Minnesota) on May 2. The band then plays Chicago on May 3 and Grand Rapids (Michigan) on May 4. CYHSY crosses into Canada for a Toronto performance on May 6 before returning stateside for shows in Albany (New York) on May 7 and Somerville (Massachusetts) on May 8. The tour concludes with performances in New York City on May 9 and a hometown show in Philadelphia on May 10.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah also confirmed European dates in September and a run of shows in November in Australia and New Zealand. Additional international tour dates will be announced at a later date.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 20th Anniversary Tour tickets go on sale on Friday, November 22.

The newly available original 2004 “Heavy Metal” track was recorded live at Machines with Magnets Studios in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Discovered among other project files from the original recording sessions, the new version was remixed and remastered for the reissue.

The lone remaining member who recorded the band’s debut album, Ounsworth shared a statement looking back at recording “Heavy Metal,” which he called “a special moment in time – a young group of guys all piling into one hotel room to wake up and go to a real studio (!) to try to come up with something special just for the fun of it.” Ounsworth further explained:

“At the time, ‘Heavy Metal’ was meant to appear alongside a small collection of songs to be used for an EP to be shopped around to labels. We never thought that an album was possible at the time. Later, during the mixing of the EP, a decision was made to add other songs. This final collection of songs went on to be the first album.

“I guess I didn’t think this original version of ‘Heavy Metal’ sat very well on the album once we started recording some of the later songs (‘The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth,’ ‘Is This Love?,’ etc.) so I decided the song should be changed even though the original (as a standalone single) had always worked. Now that I listen to the original ‘Heavy Metal’ remixed and mastered, I realize it very well could (should?) have been on the album itself.

“I really like both versions of ‘Heavy Metal’ but 20 years later I think I’ve come to appreciate this one a little more. The rest of the album has this excitement too of course but the earliest songs speak even more to a certain innocence around that time which I try hard not to forget.”

Listen to the original version of “Heavy Metal” from the pending Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 20th anniversary reissue below: