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Podcast: Pantheon - Podcasts for Music Lovers
Episode: No Filler - Stratospheric Sludge: The Deep Space Cuts of Hum's Defining Record
Description: We blast off into the stratosphere with Hum's 1995 masterpiece You'd Prefer An Astronaut, the Champaign, Illinois band's sonic collision of shoegaze shimmer and bone-crushing sludge metal. While MTV latched onto "Stars," the album's real treasures lie in the deep space between those radio moments—massive, swirling guitar walls courtesy of Matt Talbott and Tim Lash that feel like entire galaxies collapsing in slow motion. This is the record that proved heavy music could be beautiful, and shoegaze could absolutely crush. Strap in for lift-off.
Tracklist
Stars
The Pod
Suicide Machine
Why I Like Th...