New Pants Yell! – Cold Hands
I’m not really sure whether this can qualify as a ‘new’ Pants Yell! song or not. I first heard this one way back in February when it was on Skatterbrain’s awesome If You Like Everything, There’s Nothing Left To Love! compilation. Back then it was called Cold Hands, You Make Me Nervous, a title I actually like more than the rather shortened one here, but that’s a minor quibble. This version is certainly different from that one, and it comes heralding a new album, so it’s just as good as a whole new song.
This version seems a little harder than that one, but that feels a bit unfair towards it. Pants Yell! have never been a band where “hard” can be used to describe them. The band have always revelled in their restraint. Gentle words half spoken out over music that is just there to support the story. Even the stories themselves are never huge. Just those little everyday things most of us can relate to at some point. Even when the emotional parts inevitably come, they tend to focus on the mundane. This isn’t a band that wants to change the world. They just seem to want to observe it.
Received Pronunciation will be released on November 10 by the ever brilliant Slumberland Records.
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