Credits:

Hum

Description:

The first album from the drone-heavy Illinois space rock outfit Hum in over 20 years, 2020s Inlet is a dynamic return to form that evokes the fuzz-tone emotionality of their 90s albums. After breaking through with the unexpected hit Stars off 1995s Youd Prefer an Astronaut, the group released the ambitious, if somewhat commercially underappreciated 1998 follow-up Downward Is Heavenward before officially calling it quits in 2000. Over the intervening years, the bandmembers would move on to other projects, occasionally reforming for one-off live shows. Following a more formal reunion and tour in 2015, the group entered the studio to record what would become their fifth studio album, Inlet. As dark and tonally blistering as anything they did in their early years, Inlet essentially finds Hum picking up where they left off in 1998. Part of what made their brain-pummeling brand of loud-quiet-loud rock so comp