“I Don't Know What To Do With My Hands” by Minor Alps

"I Don't Know What to Do with My Hands" comes from Get There, the album Juliana Hatfield and Nada Surf frontman Matthew Caws made together as Minor Alps, released on Barsuk in October 2013. The two had been friends and occasional collaborators since the early 1990s, when they met at Nada Surf shows, and this record is where they finally became a band. They wrote this song together, as they did the whole album, and they sing on every track side by side, with Parker Kindred on drums.

The name comes from France: Caws once called Mont Ventoux, the mountain near his parents' cottage there, a "minor alp", and he liked the idea of a band name that contradicts itself, humble mountains in the tradition of Iron Butterfly and Led Zeppelin.

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