Hummer

Hummer Artist: Fog
Label: Ninja Tune
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 625978315224
EAN: 0625978315224
ASIN: B00018U9QQ


Release Date: 2004-02-10

Hummer


Related Categories:

Ambient Ambient
Categories | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
General General
Categories | R&B | Styles | Music
General General
Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
Pop Rock Pop Rock
Categories | Pop | Styles | Music

Tracks:

  1. Whom That Hits Walls
  2. Hummer
  3. Not Every Goddamn Little Thing You Do Needs a Title
  4. I, Baby
  5. Melted Crayons
  6. Cockeyed Cookie Pusher
  7. Stink of Kings

Similar Items:

  1. Ether Teeth

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The No-Hype EP of the Year 2004.......2005-02-12

Perhaps it's the fact that I've convinced myself that Fog read Stephen Jay Gould's entire oeuvre before making this album or perhaps it's the fact that Fog can take childhood & adolescent moments, weave them into a deft brief lyric and not have it sound trite or BrightEyes-ish or perhaps it's the rage I feel everytime I walk into Crossroads music in downtown Blacksburg, Virginia and find this album listed in the 'indie-hip-hop' section (I mean, what the f@ck?) regardless of the number of times I've told the faux-hipster staff that Fog does not belong there that I love this album.

Look, it comes down to this--do you want pop-subbaculcha or innovation? If the latter, dig into Fog; if the former, go buy the Arcade Fire.

4 out of 5 stars An EP worth checkingout.......2004-02-20

First, of all, I would like to applaud Andrew Broder, the man behind Fog, for making an EP worth buying. This thing has 30 minutes of new songs, and no remix crap. I think almost every band can learn a thing or two from this guy... Now, onto the actual music.

The CD opens with the fabulous "Whom That Hits Walls," which sounds like a mixture of Need New Body and cLOUDDEAD. Bizzaro free jazz meets ambient trip-hop, and it really works. However, the EP goes a bit downhill from there. It's a little hard to describe but...it turns into one of those albums that you get all excited about and tell your friends that they have to hear it, and they're like "what's so great about this?" Then, you say, "NO NO NO! Just wait, wait for the really cool part." The part comes, and everyone is like "whoa, that was pretty cool...too bad it was only 20 seconds long." Don't get me wrong! Those cool parts are REALLY cool (when the 'orchestra' of typewriters comes in on "Cockeyed Cookie Pusher," you just can't help but feel all fuzzy). However, sometimes the CD is too ambient, and unnecessary.
thezane of IndieTech.com

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Even Bigger Better Power Ballads V.3 ~ Various Artists
  2. Banzai ~ Tigertailz
  3. Bustin' Surfboards ~ The Tornadoes
  4. The Broadsword and the Beast ~ Jethro Tull
  5. Jungle City Twitch ~ The Stryder
  6. Creature Feature 2
  7. King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Dixie Dregs ~ The Dixie Dregs
  8. Creature Feature
  9. Fireships ~ Peter Hammill
  10. The Red Veil ~ SubArachnoid Space

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Bringin' It Home ~ Brother Jack McDuff

Collection

Seven Point Perspective ~ Jay Brandford Septet

Borderlands ~ Erica Mather Trio

Jazz Beautiful Ballads ~ Danny (Trio) Gottlieb

Go! ~ Dexter Gordon

Roots, Reels & Rhythms: A Scots Fusion Experience ~ Various Artists

African Breeze ~ Hugh Masekela

Kooky Cookie Kids ~ Paul Zim

Belt of the Celts ~ Wolfe Tones