Thoughts on hum?

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!

"The Summoning" is heavy as fuck.

Wow wow wow "Cloud City", this is gorgeous. I'm in heaven. This record is so good. I love being able to have been absolutely blindsided by this one.

Turning into a livetweet thread here, but I just finished listen number one. Trying to avoid hyperbole, but this is really, really, really wonderful. The combination of Talbott's voice and that guitar tone just trigger something so primal in me, given how much I lived and breathed those first three albums in college and grad school. I'm glad I didn't have time to build any expectations and could just enjoy this for the pleasant surprise that it is.

This is pure comfort food.

OTM.

I mean, it is, kinda, but I think that undersells this a little bit. While it is certainly comforting, I think they are pushing in some subtle new directions and doing really cool stuff here. Comfort food, to me, would find them coasting a little more on tone and mood, but I don't think that's what is happening here.

"the summoning" kinda stomps like sabbath

^^^^ YES, it's where the Sleep comparisons feel earned too

I meant no disparagement when I said it felt like comfort food, but I'm probably less of a Hum fan than most of you and hence not as attuned to the stylistic tweaks jon mentioned.

Oh I know it's not a disparagement and I totally get where you are coming from. Musical comfort food, for me, is usually what I think of when a long running act comes back with an album that hits the right nostalgia buttons, but doesn't really move me beyond that level. Sort of like some of the latter day Guided by Voices records or something.

Provided we do another metal/heavy music poll next year (which we totally should), this feels like a lock for the #1 spot right now.

politely but firmly disagree

it can be #2 ;)

I never said I approved of my prophecy.

What's your #1 imago?

They're from the land of famed ILXor [redacted] who hates guitars.

probably my favourite album of the last few years

not taking anything away from this Hum comeback though - they've not only returned but they've returned modified and arguably better, which is why this is getting such a deservedly great reaction

Tbh as much as I'm enjoying this new Hum I can see it cracking my top 20 but not my top 10.

oh me too but they're a band I'm naturally well-disposed to and it sounds amazing so godspeed 'em tbh

xpost - dig that Oranssi Pazuzu too, really good stuff but I need to spend some more time with it. I think it was more... industrial... than I was prepared to hear. It works, really well, but wasn't as instantaneous as their other stuff has been for me.

I only quibbled as they won the metal poll by miles last time they released an album, and this one's even better! Maybe Hum can dream-doom their way to glory though, and hell, maybe they've earnt it

idk it's really nice to hear matt talbott's vocal cadence (especially on the first track where it sounds like he's developing it into something earthier i think?) and the guitar tones and the drums and there are some really good songs on here but it sounds a little sleepy overall to me, like there is some looping that just goes on and on a little too much to excite me. first side of second disc is kinda stunning though. just my 2 cents / first impression don't mean to kill the vibe. i'll come back to it for sure probably when autumn rolls around.

One more addendum to 2020, year of glorious comebacks for heavy guitar-based music: Armagedda's Svindeldjup ättestup, which may well be my favourite of all.

i listened to this thing like three times today lol

gonna try to break up the trend by listening to the underrated and underheard 2018 failure record

i kinda think the sleepiness and occasional heavy looping are a feature, it's in no hurry to get where it's going. a weird opinion coming from me, someone who dislikes a lot of doom and stoner metal bc it sounds like it's standing still (not in a cool funeral doom way)