HUM: DOWNWARD IS HEAVENWARD Fourth Studio Album (1998)

Downward Is Heavenward is the fourth studio album by the Champaign, Illinois alternative rock band Hum, released on January 27, 1998, through RCA Records. Downward Is Heavenward was recorded in Pogo Studio, Champaign, Illinois 1997, The title of the album appears as a lyric in “Afternoon with the Axolotls“. Despite selling fewer copies than its predecessor You’d Prefer an Astronaut, the album was critically acclaimed. An unfortunate result all around, because, arguably, Downward Is Heavenward isn’t merely the group’s best album, but a lost classic of ’90s rock, period.

Tracklist:

1. Isle of the Cheetah
2. Comin’ Home
3. If You Are to Bloom
4. Ms. Lazarus
5. Afternoon with the Axolotls
6. Green to Me
7. Dreamboat
8. The Inuit Promise
9. Apollo
10. The Scientists

Credits:

Hum
Jeff Dimpsey: bass guitar
Tim Lash: guitar
Bryan St. Pere: drums
Matt Talbott: guitar, vocals

Additional personnel
Mark Rubel: production

Bryan St. Pere (April 2, 1969 – July 1, 2021)

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