Hummer (Foals song) explained

Hummer
Cover:Hummer.jpeg
Type:single
Artist:Foals
Released:12 March 2007
Length:2:57
Label:Transgressive
Producer:Gareth Parton
Prev Title:Try This on Your Piano/Look at My Furrows of Worry
Prev Year:2006
Next Title:Mathletics
Next Year:2007

"Hummer" is the second single by Foals and is the first single with Yannis Philippakis on lead vocals (the previous lead vocalist was Andrew Mears). It was released on 12 March 2007.[1] It was recorded and mixed by producer Gareth Parton at the Fortress and Metropolis recording studios, London. It was released as a digital download and on vinyl on 23 April 2007.

Although initially released as a non-album single, it was added as a bonus track to later editions of Foals' first album Antidotes.

The song was used in the second series of Skins.

Critical reception

In an 8/10 review, Drowned In Sound described the track as sounding "like Animal Collective rifling through The Rapture’s audio files on electro night".[2] It came 12th in a top tracks of 2007 list compiled by NME.[3] In October 2011, NME placed it at number 142 on its list of "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hummer - Single by Foals. iTunes. 22 February 2012.
  2. Web site: Single Review: Foals - Hummer / Astronauts And All. Dobson. Gareth. 23 April 2007. Drowned in Sound. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121007082133/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/9837/reviews/1900448. 7 October 2012. 22 February 2012.
  3. Web site: NME Tracks Of The Year 2007. NME. https://web.archive.org/web/20100315093127/https://www.nme.com/reviews/tracks/oftheyear. 15 March 2010. 7 November 2019.
  4. Web site: 150 Best Tracks Of The Past 15 Years. Schiller. Rebecca. 6 October 2011. NME. 22 February 2012.