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Riverfront Times - Christian Schaeffer reviews The Arrangement: For its second full-length, the space-pop quartet HUMDRUM compresses its fascination with buzzy synths, rangy guitars and interstellar soundscapes into a tightly constructed package. Although the group's debut album, Individual Man, was too diffuse and spotty, The Arrangement lives up to its name thanks to cleaner arrangements, a tighter focus and more melodic hooks.... [click to read the full review] Eleven Magazine - Nelda Kerr reviews The Arrangement: Wanna get away? Grab a comfy couch, the best speakers you can find, and your mind-altering drug of choice. Lay needle to vinyl for Humdrum's send album, The Arrangment. Turn off the lights, kick back, and close your eyes. If you time it just right, the album will burst into a hearty and colorful recollection of your 2010 escapades, rocking your hips, rocking your metaphysics, then rocking you gently towards the tenth track... [click to read the full review] MOTH - Lauren Curtright interviews HUMDRUM: It seems that all the most appealing aspects of St. Louis’ music scene can be appropriately labeled bi-products of the unique interconnectedness that exists among its community of artists. No exception to this is HUMDRUM, a four-piece whose band members are no strangers to making music, but prove through their most recent collaboration that the quest for new sound with old friends can result in something truly unique. MOTH was pleased to sit down with them mid-production of their forthcoming second album to talk about band dynamics and finding their sound..... [click to read the full interview] The Current - Kevin Korinek reviews HUMDRUM & Individual Man: When the band was finally set up, juiced with power and pizza, plugged-in and tuned-in, they started their first song. They did not even need the generator. Humdrum generates their own electricity and their own current. Their much larger, shadowy-counterparts loomed behind them, a void simply needing to be filled... [click to read the full review] babysue - dONW7 reviews Individual Man: There are so many one-shot bands out there on the planet...who have one basic song or idea and they beat it into the ground until no one is listening anymore. On Individual Man there are no easy canned goods. Instead of writing and recording generic music with the intent to sell it later, it is obvious that these guys are making music for all the right reasons.... [click to read the full review] Eleven Magazine - Nelda Kerr reviews Individual Man: Sometimes you’ll hear a track, and your toes start tapping (think “September” by Earth, Wind and Fire). Perhaps the glossy mystique of an artist is so attractive you can’t look away (David Bowie). Maybe it’s so jarring you feel physical pain (Paula Abdul?). In rare cases, you’ll be drawn in by the sheer authenticity of the sound: to listen is to know the creator, and crave to learn more.... [click to read the full review] Something Different Network (sdnet.fm) - Tongue&Axe Podcast Interview with Paul and Phil: Hosts Lucy Kannan, Susan Kate, and Lou Conrad discuss personal endeavors, philosophy, previous band affiliations, and the group’s song-writing dynamic with Phil and Paul..... [click to hear the PodCast] Josiah Wolf's Blog 06.11.2010 - Josiah reviews his show with HUMDRUM: dear friends, last night was a small but great show! just about 2 dozen or so peeps came out and they were awesome. granted a third of those people were the other band and tom... the opening band was humdrum - a local st louis 4 piece and they have a great thing going on. check these guys out before they blow up! paul on vocals, guitar and gong (ya!), dan on bass and vocals, mic "sick ass" drummer and phil aka baby doug mcd on rhodes, guitar and vocals. it was almost too uncanny how much phil reminded us of doug. musically he had doug's style going on, he even looks like a younger doug, tall tall tall and lanky and a green tee shirt and the same guitar. crazy. they are really great guys (and so are dan and paul's girlfriends lottie and michelle) and after the show we ate a late night meal at south city diner. for us that may have been a huge tiny mistake. late night eating is no good. but the company was great and we are glad to have to dined with them. earlier before the show we arrived at firebird for sound check and tom had ordered a huge vegan pizza from pi and shared it with us. delicious!!! mmm. they use a vegan cheese called dia that is sooooo yummy. our set was pretty good i would say. the sound there is good thanks gary! after the diner we headed back to our hotel (which we splurged on a bit) - the hilton by the arch. AMAZING. the nicest fanciest hotel room i have stayed in. this morning we met tom at the hotel and walked over to the arch. he wanted to film us playing a few songs for his website. the arch is incredible. i havent seen it since i was a kid and it really is a sight to behold. looking up at the top i felt vertigo as if the arch - not the clouds- was moving across the sky. so tom recorded two songs before his battery died but i think we have plans to film something else when we arrive in bloomington later today. we just ate at a decent vegan friendly restaurant called mokabe's coffeehouse. i had a veg. reuben that was pretty good but our veggie burger is less than desirable. the coffee was ok but pretty weak. not a favorite and i wouldn't go there again. but again the company was great (tom) which often makes the meal when the meal doesn't make the man. next stop bloomington, in! iTunes Review 05.05.2010 - Surly Aardvark reviews Individual Man for Cinco De Mayo: Humdrum is a cleverly constructed folding of intelligent lyric, off-kilter humor, technical savvy, highly honed talent, musicianship beyond reproach, and that indefinable soul to back it all up. This is their first release and it's a clear indication that this band is one to keep your eye upon. "Mermaid" alone will tell you that. The songwriting has an eclectic imagination and intriguing mood that each component of instrumentation supports and plays to the delight of the listener. Granted, a couple of the tracks seem a little harder to access and appreciate at first (but so is "Fitter, Happier"). We'll see even greater things from this band in due time, no doubt, as they mine their talents and show us an ever more refined product. This album is a firm foundation and a stellar ground floor! Surly Aardvark Riverfront Times - Christian Schaeffer reviews Individual Man: If you were to break a certain folksy dictum and judge HUMDRUM's CD by its cover, you'd be right to assume that space is the place for this local quartet. The artwork for Individual Man features a hand-drawn image of an astronaut adrift in the cosmos, and the track list features titles such as "Hide and Seek in the Universe" and "Outerspace." But for all the celestial reveries, vocoder freakouts and ambient soundscapes – the band cheekily thanks their delay pedal in the liners — HUMDRUM's music is solid.... [click to read the full review]