The world can be a tough place to live in, with a seemingly endless stream of problems. Sometimes, it’s easy to wish that you could just turn your brain off to the sad and scary things that are happening, and just take it easy. That’s the desire that Bear Hands are expressing within their latest single, “Floor It,” which dropped today.
The pop-infused track is the second single that the post-punk band has dropped this year, after “Intrusive Thoughts” was released on June 4.
The single is off of the band’s upcoming album, The Key to What, Bear Hands’ first release in five years. The album will be released through Rostrum Records and the band’s longtime label, Cantora Records, which was recently reformed. The Brooklyn-based indie label is best known for releasing MGMT’s Time to Pretend in 2005. In 2015, Cantora Records’s catalog was acquired by Rostrum Records, a Los Angeles-based independent label that reformed Cantora Records last year. Bear Hands was one of Cantora Records’ first signings after reforming.
“Floor It” is essentially a song about two different types of trips: a carefree road trip, and a means of mental escape.
During the chorus, vocalist and guitarist Dylan Rau sings “It’s time to go and never come back. It’s the open road, my girlfriend and our cat,” about an easygoing road trip
The verses, on the other hand, are less pleasant and carefree. Instead, they focus on a desire to return to the pleasant and carefree frame of mind, and ignore bad things happening in the world — like just enjoying the practice of receiving a package, instead of thinking about some of the horrible labor conditions that workers endure to get the package to its recipient.
“I don’t wanna know, I don’t wanna see how it gets made or how it gets to me,” Rau sings during one of the verses in “Floor It.” “How I’m gonna live too fast, too free? When the world looks so scary?”
Bear Hands will be touring throughout the United States later this year, celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the post-punk band’s second release, “Distraction.”
“Floor It” is out now.
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