Hum Is No Longer the Greatest Overlooked Band of the 1990s
The Sound of Young Champaign
No record has stuck with me for so long the way You’d Prefer an Astronaut by the band Hum has. Back in 1995, when I was just a 14-year-old scamming mail-order companies out of free records, I’d picked it along with six or seven other CDs by taping the required penny on the piece of paper, then signing my name believing that, as a minor, they couldn’t fo…
