The New Pornographers - ＂Your Hands (Together)＂ Official Video

What this video is

Released May 5, 2010, one day after The New Pornographers' fifth studio album Together (Matador Records) debuted at #18 on the Billboard 200, 'Your Hands (Together)' arrived at a high-water mark for Canadian indie rock's crossover visibility. The video, directed by band member and filmmaker Blaine Thurier, exemplifies the self-directed, band-internal video production model common among indie collectives of this era…

Why it matters

As the lead single and first video from Together, this clip served as the primary visual introduction to The New Pornographers' most commercially successful album. It reinforces the band's identity as a high-energy indie rock collective and demonstrates Blaine Thurier's consistent role as the…

The director

Blaine Thurier (born 1967, Estevan, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian musician and independent filmmaker. He served as keyboardist and synthesizer player for The New Pornographers from 1997 to 2021, appearing on all albums from Mass Romantic (2000) through In the…