You'd Prefer an Astronaut

Album · Released 11 April 1995

You'd Prefer an Astronaut

Hum

The quiet voice inside You'd Prefer an Astronaut makes its enormous guitars feel even larger. Matt Talbott rarely tries to dominate the sound around him. He seems to be speaking from somewhere within it, giving Hum's heavy music an intimate centre that volume alone could never provide. Stars is the most immediate route into that contrast. The clean opening lets the melody establish itself before the distortion arrives, and the full band changes…

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