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
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
"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.
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
I guess X has everyone else beat (27 years!) but damn what a year for comebacks
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
No idea if anyone cares but speaking of comebacks released this year, Lowrider's Refractions is excellent.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
For real? I don't think I've even thought about Lowrider for, like, 15 years!
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
can't believe a song like "cloud city" exists
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
That Shine record is also great, some good listening these past two days, thank you for the recommendation!
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
"The Summoning" is heavy as fuck.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
This is pure comfort food.
OTM.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
"the summoning" kinda stomps like sabbath
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
^^^^ YES, it's where the Sleep comparisons feel earned too
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
politely but firmly disagree
― imago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
it can be #2 ;)
― imago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
I never said I approved of my prophecy.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
What's your #1 imago?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
They're from the land of famed ILXor [redacted] who hates guitars.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
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
― imago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
Tbh as much as I'm enjoying this new Hum I can see it cracking my top 20 but not my top 10.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
oh me too but they're a band I'm naturally well-disposed to and it sounds amazing so godspeed 'em tbh
― imago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
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
― imago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
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.
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
i listened to this thing like three times today lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
gonna try to break up the trend by listening to the underrated and underheard 2018 failure record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
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)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
the main riff of "step into you" is SO my shit it's ridiculous
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
That quiet section a third of the way into 'Desert Rambler' is so lovely and unhurried, especially when it drops down to the lower bit, I could happily listen to half an hour of that.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, June 24, 2020 11:12 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah this is actually an appealing thing about this record, you're right
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
"cloud city" is like... the best song i've ever heard
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
a thought i have had about other recent outside-current-mainstream/pop rock records i've heard in the past several years was that perhaps there is a correlation between rock being out of commercial/audience favor, and bands digging in to the doomy/stoner sawtooth heavy riff template, kind of as a refuge. like for the fans, people who show up to shows and just wanna hear that heavy guitar sound without all the whatever.
in the 90s hum certainly had something of the sabbath-by-way-of-seattle heft to them but it wasn't defining, more of a touchstone of the era.
― j., Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
downward was super multi-layered and blissful though iirc, it felt like world-building to me. maybe the ambition of that record wasn't sustainable. i don't know it's been a long time since i've listened to it but i don't wanna stop listening to high on fire atm.
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
anyway i'll stop being a downer about the NEW HUM ALBUM
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
Who dare I hope will return next
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
will jejune and elliott drop new albums just for my benefit
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
Am I alone in liking Seam, I ask myself goddamnit
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
If Brad Laner still posted on here I could have lobbied for another Lusk album.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 25 June 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
ah maaaan that'd be something
― imago, Thursday, 25 June 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
this is kinda like the album i've always wanted boris to make?
― ufo, Thursday, 25 June 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
Well funnily enough since we've got a new Boris album next week you can compare and contrast.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 June 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
For my part, I think what I meant was that it hits all the right buttons for immediate enjoyment/absorption for me (including obv memory/nostalgia triggers), poses no barriers. It was probably not quite the right term since I agree that it's not just that: listening more, the songs really do pack emotional heft.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 25 June 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link