Please Clap Your Hands by The Bird And The Bee

Please Clap Your Hands, the second EP from the Los Angeles duo the Bird and the Bee, came out on Blue Note on September 25, 2007, and it's a small, sweet dose of what Inara George ("the bird") and Greg Kurstin ("the bee") do best: jazz-flecked electropop that sounds like a cocktail party on a spaceship. Four originals sit alongside a cover of the Bee Gees' 1977 song "How Deep Is Your Love", with Sia adding backing vocals.

The pair brought members of their touring band in for this one: Joey Waronker on drums, Gus Seyffert on guitar, and Megan Geer-Alsop, Willow Geer-Alsop and Alex Lilly singing backup alongside Sia. It arrived between the Again and Again and Again and Again EP and One Too Many Hearts, and "Polite Dance Song" is the title that best sums up the mood: danceable, but never rude about it.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.