Downward is Heavenward is
Hum's most recent album. It's a bit more conventional musically, I think, than their other albums, but just a bit. Still has that excellent
layered sound. Not as
dark as the other albums, and holds more of a mix of impressions for me. From
warm summer days (
Comin' Home), to vast
winter wastelands (
Inuit Promise), and of course the ever-present
sci-fi aesthetic.
There's a short little poem inside the front cover (you can hear it in the background at the end of
The Inuit Promise:
Your
solvents frozen here on the
petal rung
is all we have to
see
enlarged
inside as we enspy
the warming
sea.
Your breath
diffused and never realized
aside from
where the panicked hide
and I
just
a subtle lift
provider on the
other side.
Track list:
Isle Of The Cheetah
Comin' Home
If You Are To Bloom
Ms. Lazarus
Afternoon With The Axolotls
Green To Me
Dreamboat
The Inuit Promise
Apollo
The Scientists