You’d Prefer an Astronaut cover

You’d Prefer an Astronaut

Hum

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Slowgazers hailing from the home of REO Speedwagon, Hum fell into that weird liminal space between alternative and space rock (see also: Failure). Their chronicles of suburban malaise lived in the dichotomy between quiet despair and undulating feedback. Minor hit “Stars” depicts a relationship as it drifts off into the ether, “I’d Like Your Hair Long” sets a breakup to a jaunty pop-grunge tune, and the guitar tone on “The Pod” birthed the Deftones. You get the sense that they could count stars all night and still wind up back at zero.

Jeff Treppel

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