"AWHOO!" + I-IV-V x Beer= Thee Crucials
We bond over race records, ass pockets of whisky, and the Norton catalog.
The Crucials website
Sometimes, you just need a good dose of healthy ass-kicking rock and roll, and The Humms are determined to provide it in spades. They sing about all the traditional topics: death, love and a whole lot of drugs, and do it all while sounding like the ultimate soundtrack to a Quentin Tarantino movie. The four-song EP Are You Dead? is an upbeat romp through simple but enjoyable songs.
The Humms offer a refreshing change of pace from the current wave of drone and half-hearted rock that seems to have overtaken Athens. Their live shows are extreme, high-energy gigs, vaguely reminiscent of the utterly exhausting Flat Duo Jets. The trio is prone to thrashing about onstage, something that manages to carry through to most of the EP.
There is no actual humming on the record. Instead, you find a mix of surf guitar and “to hell with technique” drumming. Each song sounds saturated with the '60s, especially the title track, which sounds like the beginning of a rave from the first howl. The vocals are heavy on the reverb side, making it very hard to resist calling the track trippy.
“LSD Is Evil” is the standout number, kicking off with wild drums and barreling through the song with half-sung lyrics. The trio manages to create a lot of sound, all of which they claim was recorded in a haunted 1950s trailer. It’s a visual image that fits the sound. The Humms are just a really great rock ‘n’ roll trio playing in a van. There’s no pretension, just rock.
Jordan Stepp - Flagpole Magazine
The Humms website
---PASTE MAGAZINE ATLANTA---
On the way to the Earl on the night of the 31st, the creepy musical swells provided by Album 88's ambient show eerily coincided with the branching lightning bolts shooting, forking across the clouds above East Atlanta. Inside the venue, the pre-show scene was similar: The low lighting in the Earl's back room revealed a glowing red on the walls and a muffled flurry of browns and grays everywhere else. People traversed the wide floor, ambling back and forth like so many slowed down flashes of electricity in the sky outside.
Local trio Can Can, whose The Holy Kiss EP was released in January, would do nothing to dilute the evening's atmosphere of teetering chaos. Immediately before their set they pulled up and turned on three blinding, expandable pillar floodlights on the stage, leaving us all blinking like deer in their in their headlights. The threesome is dynamic. The careening punk emanating from their one drum kit, one guitar and screaming vocals sounds like it was produced by an army silhouetted against the light.
Can Can could be my new favorite band. I jotted down a note, "somewhere between Andrew W.K., The B-52's, and former local band Love Drunks" before I realized the male singer was indeed Patrick A., formerly of the Love Drunks.
Can!!Can on Myspace
$5, 21+, Doors @ 9 PM!
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