It’s not often that I respond strongly to musicians that are just clearly having a great time. It’s not that I don’t like fun music, but I more often lean towards the other end of the spectrum, be it blues, rock, metal, indie or just heartbreaking songs regardless of genre. I’m just that kind of guy, I guess. But it’s hard to talk about Humming House without talking about fun, which is ultimately what their aptly titled album, Revelries (due out on March 24th), delivers in a tight 11 song package.
Lead vocalist Justin Wade Tam sounds like a long lost Avett brother and that’s not meant as anything but a compliment. Just like the Avett Brothers, this house of humming is filled with an energy and overall exuberance that it can barely contain. It’s downright infectious. You will quickly answer the call to “Run With Me” from the opener and find yourself stomping along from the start. And it just goes on from there across “The Great Divide,” with a certain warmth and organic familiarity that you will somehow find yourself singing along to at first listen. This is no accident because overall, Humming House is a live band and that comes through clearly in this album, through the songs themselves thanks to the production by Mitch Dane that doesn’t let any gimmicks get in the way of the atmosphere. …show more content…
This is a very clean sounding album. Throughout the album, in addition to Tam’s guitar, Bobby Chase’s fiddle and Josh Wolak’s mandolin bring together Irish and American folk traditions, while Ben Jones’ bass grounds the whole
Lead vocalist Justin Wade Tam sounds like a long lost Avett brother and that’s not meant as anything but a compliment. Just like the Avett Brothers, this house of humming is filled with an energy and overall exuberance that it can barely contain. It’s downright infectious. You will quickly answer the call to “Run With Me” from the opener and find yourself stomping along from the start. And it just goes on from there across “The Great Divide,” with a certain warmth and organic familiarity that you will somehow find yourself singing along to at first listen. This is no accident because overall, Humming House is a live band and that comes through clearly in this album, through the songs themselves thanks to the production by Mitch Dane that doesn’t let any gimmicks get in the way of the atmosphere. …show more content…
This is a very clean sounding album. Throughout the album, in addition to Tam’s guitar, Bobby Chase’s fiddle and Josh Wolak’s mandolin bring together Irish and American folk traditions, while Ben Jones’ bass grounds the whole