Band: Hum
Album: You’d Prefer an Astronaut
Best song: “Stars” is a great song, “I’d Like Your Hair Long” is awesome and “I Hate It Too” is amazing.
Worst song: “Songs of Farewell and Departure” and “Why I Like the Robins” are both relatively weak.

Because of the band’s roots in Urbana-Champaign, Hum was considered emo for a time. The main campus of the University of Illinois spawned several impressive bands from the all-familiar genre — Braid, Sarge, etc. — as well as many other fantastic bands (Poster Children, Dianogah, etc.). Because of the size of the town, these bands played together a lot. Continue reading →