Look At Your Hands

Album: I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life (2017)
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  • This is the lead single from I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life, Tune-Yards band leader Merrill Garbus said regarding the song's meaning: "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?"

    She added: "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."

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