What made Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s eponymous debut so enjoyable were all the little segments of songs that stuck in ones mind at the end of the day. Upon the first listen, it was very easy to disregard what was behind the music, rather focusing on the annoying vocals layered on top of the somewhat lo-fi instrumentals; giving it a second and a third spin would ultimately, however, pay off due to well constructed melodies and catchy bass lines and riffs. Some Loud Thunder, unfortunately, is almost entirely void of all these things that made Clap Your Hands Say Yeah shine, save for a small few of the latter tracks. The album opens with the title track, which rather than beginning the slate of music to follow with a bang, leaves the listener with a lo-fi, insignificant feeling. Successor “Emily Jean Stock,” has church bells and bland, forgettable vocals ride over an acoustic guitar that has no punch. This presents the fault that continues through the rest of the album: there’s barely anything to latch onto. The lowest of the low is “Satan Said Dance,” a five-and-a-half minute dance-punk fluke, with bothersome instrumentals that never let up. The succession of “Yankee Go Home” and “Underwater (You And Me)” is the clear highlight of the album, with both of them lasting, triumphantly, in the same way that the best tracks of the first album did. Only two great tracks out of eleven, however, is not enough to make an album succeed; it’s a shameful sophomore effort from a band with so much more potential.