The Shaking Hands are an L.A. band with a very appropriate name—this is jittery stuff that’d fit well with the Urinals, the (early) Garden or Gary Wilson, who the Shaking Hands actually opened for at Non Plus Ultra. If you remember how the punk comps in the 80s used to put the hardcore on side A and the experimental stuff on side B … Shaking Hands are definitely (and probably proudly) a B-side band. That sort of two-sides-of-the-same-thing dynamic is in play in the video by Matt Nespor, too, which is practically soaking in that blown-out YouTube manifesto aesthetic. As the band tells us:

“I think generally I’m interested in the intersection of opposites. With ‘Take You’ I wanted to find a way to put myself in between the dynamics of power. On one end you have this weak character who comes off as confused and sort of clown like, and the other you have this over confident salesman or cop-like character. I find both of them ridiculous, neither worth taking seriously, but I find myself coming across people like them almost every day. It’s sort of funny to me—this idea that you’re either selling something or being sold to, taking someone or being taken.”