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Just at the very beginning of the buzz of Brooklyn’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, lead singer Alec Ounsworth played a free ’solo’ show at the tiny Pete’s Candy Store, in Williamsburg. I was completely hooked on the (then new) CYHSY! record, and jumped at the chance to get any live variant that I possibly could. I was surprised but completely impressed with Alec’s side project, which featured a much more twangy, folk-rock side of the singer-songwriter. As I mentioned in my review of Band of Horses on Sunday, I’m not usually drawn to this end of the rock spectrum. If anything, that night made me more greatly appreciate Alec Ounsworth’s talent, as he eschewed the dance-rock guitar driven sound of CYHSY!, for that of acoustic guitar, harmonica, lap steel and brushed drums.