Merrill Garbus, better known as tUnE-yArDs, last put out an album in 2014, and it’s been a long wait for her and fans alike. Today she comes boisterously forward with ‘Look At Your Hands‘, an emphatic and infectious new single that streamlines her sound into something much slicker, but not without the weirdness at the edges that makes Garbus’ music stand out.
She says about ‘Look At Your Hands‘: “Yes, the world is a mess, but I’ve been attempting to look more and more inward: how do all of these “isms” that we live in manifest in me, in my daily activities, interactions?
“Some of the 80s throwback production came from wanting the vocals to sound robotic, maybe to counter the sincerity of the lyrics. I started sampling my vocals in an MPC which I’ve wanted to do for years, and there was something that felt really right about my voice being trapped in a machine.”
Listen to the new song below.
‘Look At Your Hands‘ is taken from the newly-announced album I can feel you creeping into my private life, which will be released through 4AD on 19th January.
