"all the business class still living with their mothers..."
“Take Arms” from Hull’s Low Hummer is a synth riddled jammer, like a modern Tubeway Army if you will. With heavy, in your face lyricism and palpable energy, Low Hummer create music with their passion for the art form itself. While I appreciate artists who solely use synths and electronics (and analog at that), it’s refreshing when that sound is incorporated into raw instrumentation with distorted guitars, real drums and bass. “Take Arms” calls out society in a sardonic political punk fashion and hands it to you on a pulsating platter.
[‘Take Arms’ landed on a day where the world waits for America to make it’s potentially catastrophic electoral decision and finds the band at their most overtly political and apocalyptic as guitarist and singer Daniel Mawer explains: “I was pretty engrossed in the idea of the end of the world when I wrote ‘Take Arms’. I wanted to write a rallying call that would attempt to address everyone, at a point in the near future where we are at the edge of no return.”]
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-Alyssa Holland
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Encapsulating The North of England’s vibrant DIY music scene, Hull five piece ‘Low Hummer’ are set to take 2020 by storm with an arsenal of deadpan post-punk anthems.
Brought up on a diet of chip spice and patty butties, in the sweat dripping walls of The Adelphi, Low Hummer are a battered, bruised and wired bunch of odd bods armed with synthesisers, drum machines and distorted guitars (and a scratched copy of ‘Surfer Rosa’ in their back pocket).
Encapsulating The North of England’s vibrant DIY music scene, Hull five piece ‘Low Hummer’ are set to take 2020 by storm with an arsenal of deadpan post-punk anthems.
Brought up on a diet of chip spice and patty butties, in the sweat dripping walls of The Adelphi, Low Hummer are a battered, bruised and wired bunch of odd bods armed with synthesisers, drum machines and distorted guitars (and a scratched copy of ‘Surfer Rosa’ in their back pocket).
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The follow up to ‘Sometimes I Wish (I Was A Different Person), ‘Take Arms’ is a crushing electronic anthem for the end times, at least as they see it… Layers of driving, pulsing synths and snarling guitars collide to lay the foundation for the band’s brashest, nosiest single yet.
While the band have long tackled themes of social isolation, manipulation and misinformation, ‘Take Arms’ landed on a day where the world waits for America to make it’s potentially catastrophic electoral decision and finds the band at their most overtly political and apocalyptic as guitarist and singer Daniel Mawer explains: “I was pretty engrossed in the idea of the end of the world when I wrote ‘Take Arms’. I wanted to write a rallying call that would attempt to address everyone, at a point in the near future where we are at the edge of no return.”
Taking this idea of a rallying cry for the end of the world and running with it, the band took the opportunity to speak to the imagined masses ahead of them in their vision: “From addressing my local Northerners, to the business class, billionaires and single parents, I offered the only solution to the inevitable end of the world that we’d all collectively face. Individually self-destructing ourselves with alcohol, and rambling the phrase ‘I won’t take it!’
‘Take Arms’ shows the strong collaborative spirit between the band and producer Matt Peel who has worked on all of the bands singles explains Mawer: “I had the remnants of a plodding, scrappy sounding song, and went to The Nave with me to see our producer Matt who completely turned the song on it’s head! Within an hour of settling in at the studio he chucked Krautrock drum patterns at us, we had fuzzy synths on the go which we had no idea how to use, and John sweating in the live room creating guitar hero finger tapping solos. We walked out at the end of a couple of days recording time, terrified we’d wasted our money on a drastically different song we wouldn’t know how to play live, but once we had a couple of plays of the mix in the car we were hooked and felt like those inspirations Matt had drawn from should be used to help us write more.”
Low Hummer, who arrived almost exactly one year ago with a run of impeccable singles that have earned them extensive support from the likes of NME, Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music. They are currently working on their debut album for Dance To The Radio due 2021
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While the band have long tackled themes of social isolation, manipulation and misinformation, ‘Take Arms’ landed on a day where the world waits for America to make it’s potentially catastrophic electoral decision and finds the band at their most overtly political and apocalyptic as guitarist and singer Daniel Mawer explains: “I was pretty engrossed in the idea of the end of the world when I wrote ‘Take Arms’. I wanted to write a rallying call that would attempt to address everyone, at a point in the near future where we are at the edge of no return.”
Taking this idea of a rallying cry for the end of the world and running with it, the band took the opportunity to speak to the imagined masses ahead of them in their vision: “From addressing my local Northerners, to the business class, billionaires and single parents, I offered the only solution to the inevitable end of the world that we’d all collectively face. Individually self-destructing ourselves with alcohol, and rambling the phrase ‘I won’t take it!’
‘Take Arms’ shows the strong collaborative spirit between the band and producer Matt Peel who has worked on all of the bands singles explains Mawer: “I had the remnants of a plodding, scrappy sounding song, and went to The Nave with me to see our producer Matt who completely turned the song on it’s head! Within an hour of settling in at the studio he chucked Krautrock drum patterns at us, we had fuzzy synths on the go which we had no idea how to use, and John sweating in the live room creating guitar hero finger tapping solos. We walked out at the end of a couple of days recording time, terrified we’d wasted our money on a drastically different song we wouldn’t know how to play live, but once we had a couple of plays of the mix in the car we were hooked and felt like those inspirations Matt had drawn from should be used to help us write more.”
Low Hummer, who arrived almost exactly one year ago with a run of impeccable singles that have earned them extensive support from the likes of NME, Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music. They are currently working on their debut album for Dance To The Radio due 2021
NOTICE: If you enjoyed this article, please consider donating to AP as we are in need of support to keep our coverage of Indie Artists like this one alive: click here > https://gf.me/u/yp5ich
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