Following the new album announcement, We Are Scientists deliver another tantalizing taste of the Huffy universe today. Thematically following on from previous release “Fault Lines”, the new track takes aim at social media and how many of its users (the band included) often fail to apply the most basic forms of etiquette when engaging in endless beefs online.

Singer and guitarist Keith Murray tells us where he’s coming from while providing context for the origins of “Handshake Agreement”: “Do you ever find yourself in the middle of a passionate argument about politics or art or, like, whether people should ever wear hats (no, they shouldn’t, unless it’s very cold), and suddenly realize that, somehow, you’re making a desperate defense for a position that you don’t even really believe, or care about, or have the slightest bit of real information on? Sadly, I’m in this position all too often. It’s a bad habit, and I’m working on it. Please let me use this moment to apologize to my bandmates, to my wife, to anyone who’s ever talked to me after two beers.”

With the apology out the way Keith continues, “I could get into how, as far as I can tell, social media has reduced public conversation to this sort of dialogue, where everything is half-believed but doubly passionate, but let’s be honest, nobody wants to hear already-obvious social theory from a guitar player.“

Keith then comes to a succinct and snappy conclusion on the subject, “Suffice it to say that ‘Handshake Agreement’ is my song about Twitter and how whatever servers it’s being run on should be shot out of a cannon into the ocean as quickly as possible. Thanks.”

For the track’s accompanying video, the band delve into another aspect of the world wide web as we know it today. The clip has been premiered on a channel belonging to familiar YouTube music critic Beef Harmon£y.

Photo Courtesy: Danny Lee Allen