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.
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]