Thoughts on hum?

i love that they continue to put the running time on the album cover

Don't think I'd heard "Stars" since 120 Mins days, just reminded myself what it sounds like. I should've been into this band!

but it's not too late, this thread suggests :)

"Bryan St Pere is definitely playing on this. "
definitely good news, he was a huge part of why the earlier records were so good. Massive drummer

Ha, I was wondering why the Hum thread suddenly lit up.

kinda surprised there’s this much love here <3

well it's a bit like when Sleep came back, except arguably even more ILM-beloved (and I'd say considerably better too)

considerably better too

Indeed, indeed.

TS: Inlet vs Slowdive

is that the presumed gold standard for shoegaze comebacks eh

we'll need an Avalon Emerson remix to be sure

'considerably better' thirded. It is nice how Hum's last album was from before these borads existed, and now making clear how many ppl here love them.

is that the presumed gold standard for shoegaze comebacks eh

m b v trumps them all tbh – it's best thing they've ever done, as a matter of fact.

haha, nicely saved pom

I quite liked Slowdive's s/t too, give or take a track or two.

how many of the og US gazers have returned is a question

(come back, Swirlies!)

Doesn't matter, just listen to Holy Fawn.

m b v trumps them all tbh – it's best thing they've ever done, as a matter of fact.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, June 24, 2020 8:17 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wait wasn't it just last week you said 'This Is Your Bloody Valentine' was their best? Or did I imagine that? Made me blink a couple of times!

lol that wasn't me, no. I've been consistently stanning for m b v and knocking Loveless for years!

Lol, mea maxima culpa! (putting it down to the fever I had last week)

Knocking Loveless for years

Love Loveless but I do love this :D

my recent controversial MBV opinion is that Feed Me With Your Kiss might be their best EP (along with YMMR obv)

anyway, off-topic sorry

Proof:

New Ride

Then again, I may have shitposted about MBV last week without realizing it.

xps

Hardly controversial! xp to lj

I never filed Hum under shoegaze, not in the 90s at least.

Same here (although I discovered Hum in the early 00s).

No, Pom, my mea culpa remains in place. It was this post of yours where I mistook 's/t' for their first w/ the band name in the title. (ab)solved!

i love that this record feels like it's picking up where they left off and yet is very different from downward and astronaut. they've never been quite so dreamy or heavy or groovy

Ah, the fog has lifted. So I did shitpost about MBV last week without realizing it.

xp

i love that this record feels like it's picking up where they left off and yet is very different

Quite literally, I thought; the song on DiH that seems to me to portend this album the closest is "The Scientists"

Yeah it's weird to see Hum slotted in with shoegaze in retrospect (even if it makes COMPLETE sense), because that is not at all how I thought of them back when I was a college sophomore rocking the ringer version of this t-shirt (which I so desperately wish I still had) all over the UIUC campus watching them play at Mabel's.

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Finally listening to this on good speakers, into "In the Den" right now and I have the biggest fucking grin plastered across my face.

god "desert rambler" is amazing

i know both bands share a lot of history already but the groove on "in the den" is some failure shit, i love it

I had forgotten how large the ilxor Hum contingent was, but absolutely love to see it come out in full force.

in addition to being shoegaze and post-grunge and stoner metal and any number of other things, they also placed at #48 in our emo/post-hardcore poll! versatility, folks

hum bring everyone together

I think it will do well commercially (by, like, Polyvinyl standards) because since the last album came out, at least 1 in 4 Deftones fans have become Hum fans

Neither ho-hum nor humdrum.

since the last album came out, at least 1 in 4 Deftones fans have become Hum fans

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, June 24, 2020 11:43 AM (fifty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

recognizing myself in this post

I'm curious what it will do tbh. Despite the reunion stuff of five years ago or so, there's never been a slow drip of news or teasing about a new album. Perhaps that's key to its success, if that will be it. It's not a Wrens where it can almost only disappoint..

xp to Simon

"dreamy heavy and groovy" is otm. i didn't catch all the lyrics but more emotional too? the specter of relationships. also someone has taken a few roadtrips through the southwest.

I realized this morning that mbv was also a 22 year wait.

I'm confused about the initial release date of Jerusalem, but 1996 (22 years before The Sciences) seems correct.

Both were very high placements on my personal decade list. I don't wanna make that kind of call for Inlet after only hearing it twice but anything's possible.

there's never been a slow drip of news or teasing about a new album

There wasn't much to report. They took their time.

I guess X has everyone else beat (27 years!) but damn what a year for comebacks

No idea if anyone cares but speaking of comebacks released this year, Lowrider's Refractions is excellent.

For real? I don't think I've even thought about Lowrider for, like, 15 years!

Oh yes, Refractions is really, really good. Didn't really mention it because it seems like even the usual stoner rock leaning ilm crew has seemed to have dried up. It's a really great comeback.

can't believe a song like "cloud city" exists

That Shine record is also great, some good listening these past two days, thank you for the recommendation!