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
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.
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
The Summoning -> Cloud City -> Folding is just *all time*.
Definitely.
Matt Talbot's vox match the songwriting tone - appropriately understated.
I'm actually enjoying the vocals. Nice Stipe/Mascis triggers.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 25 June 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
xp Damn someone from Lusk used to post here
― billstevejim, Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
Yeah I like Talbot's vocals myself, I just don't see them as a lure to the unfamiliar, I guess?
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:55 (three years ago) link
First time I've been able to listen on headphones right now and it's even better than I thought yesterday, a real follow up to Downward is Heavenward that doesn't miss a step. That said some of the more heavy/less melodic parts remind me of tunes off of Electra 2000, just with DiH production.
Also I love St Pere's drumming and he has slowed it down a lot and simplified things. He always had these cascades of accent notes on toms before and that's not as present here. I suppose we all get old :)
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 25 June 2020 03:12 (three years ago) link
heartwarming story in the Stereogum comments:
I grew up in Champaign and these guys are the real deal in every way. Matt Talbott is insanely cool and nice. I was in a nirvana cover band when I was 10 and Hum let us open a few times for them. We were these little kids playing huge shows, and Talbott was so cool and encouraging to us. it was truly incredible.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 June 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link
revisited downward is heavenward and you'd prefer an astronaut today and they're still good but inlet is really on another level
― ufo, Thursday, 25 June 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
i love downward is heavenward soooo much so i'm not prepared to agree with that but then again i've listened to this album like ten times in the past two days
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 June 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
it's just really everything i could want from this sort of music
― ufo, Thursday, 25 June 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
The fresh new adventure has been wonderful. I'm not at all prepared to size it up against the other Hum records. Just enjoying. But if I had to make that call right now for some reason, I know that Downward is somewhere in my top 50 of all time, and atm I can't see Inlet placing as well.
But as a follow up it delivers just as well as any of the best long-awaited 2010s LPs. Like mbv or Black Messiah I think it's the kind of record I'll continue revisiting for the next few years. Whereas that was not the case with those two Failure records or even the Faith No More album from a few years ago.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 25 June 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
The opener “waves” with its Only Shallow riff and tremolo lead could almost be a mbv tune
― calstars, Thursday, 25 June 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
Groovy moment on “folding” when the guitars cut out
― calstars, Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
despite (maybe mistakenly) thinking myself pretty knowledgeable on most 90s/early 2000s indie-ish/alternative-ish ROCK that had any sort of impact... i had somehow never even heard of these guys at all, let alone actually heard them until this week's lp. it's definitely some 90s comfort ear food... in a similar way to that new Swervedriver LP from last year - so check that out if you haven't heard it Hum fans.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, 26 June 2020 12:24 (three years ago) link
the first Swervedriver comeback album is great and really worth checking out, last year's had some good songs too
― imago, Friday, 26 June 2020 12:38 (three years ago) link
I keep parsing it as Skrewdriver, I think I need another coffee.
― pomenitul, Friday, 26 June 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link
Finally listening on good headphones and this is great. That last few minutes of Desert Rambler aren't *nearly* long enough.
My lack of knowledge of the earlier records probably means I'm getting my influences chronologically cock-eyed, but I'm getting quite a lot of Remote Part-era Idlewild from this - In the Den and Step into You, particularly.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
wow I don't hear that at all! but the sheer breadth of bands referenced here indicates to me that basically they continue to sound like Hum above all else
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
I keep falling into the guitars and getting 'called back' by the cadences of the vocals - definite Roddy Woomble thing going on! Probably just me.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
They have a certain shared nerdiness, that I can hear.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
That last few minutes of Desert Rambler aren't *nearly* long enough.
agreed, started that section over and over yesterday
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 26 June 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
chopped and screwed edition when
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
Is anyone else hearing echoes of 'October Rust' era Type O Negative?
― Maresn3st, Friday, 26 June 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
XXP - I made one for yez, Desert Rambler, 13'45" version.
https://we.tl/t-yz9lS1iGbH
― Maresn3st, Friday, 26 June 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, 26 June 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link