Champaign, Illinois band Hum is reissuing its four-album catalog (Electra 2000, You’d Prefer An Astronaut, Downward Is Heavenward, Inlet). The band members oversaw every step of the re-mastering, lacquer cutting, and manufacturing stages while working with original designer Andy Mueller/OhioGirl in updating the artwork. All records manufactured at RTI in California.

Hum are Jeff Dipsey, bass and vocals; Tim Lash, guitar, vocals and voices; Bryan St. Pere, drums and vocals; and Matt Talbott, guitar and vocals.

“Released in 1997, this is HUM’s final album, and it is often called their masterpiece … All Music Guide has called this album a ‘lost classic of ’90s rock.’ I would have to say that I tend to agree with this. I had never heard of them until very recently, and now I’m angry that I was not let in on this little secret. But that’s why this review is here, to let all of you who were like me up until now in on it. The album itself is at times gorgeous, at times extremely loud and epic, and at times gentle and personal. The band manages to cover all of this with only traditional rock instrumentation, and is even able to make music that is simultaneously gorgeous, loud, epic, gentle, and personal.”