New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Nashville band Humming House will release their third full-length album Companion on October 6th via Soundly Music. The follow-up to 2015's Revelries, the new album finds the
Music City quartet expanding their sound into a new territory, creating sonic landscapes that remain compelling and honest while still maintaining a sense of intimacy that is derived from their roots of making music as friends all together in the same room. Today they unveiled the title track off their new album, debuted by Glide Magazine who called it "exuberant and loaded with a light-hearted fun sound. Quick-fire guitar riffs are balanced with an anthemic chorus and a bouncy fun sound that makes a perfect soundtrack for closing out that summer party."
"'Companion' is simply about the excitement of meeting someone new and the thrill of being together," frontman Justin Wade Tam told Glide. "It's about enjoying the most momentous and mundane parts of a relationship. The song came together in pieces. I split my time between Athens, GA and Nashville, TN for 4 years while my wife was working on her PHD at UGA. Needless to say, I had quite a bit of drive time on my commutes back and forth. The melody and lyrics to 'Companion' were written acapella in the car somewhere on I-75. I knew what the key would be, but I really had no musical direction. So I sent an iPhone memo (car noise and all) to Ben and Josh so they could come up with some ideas. When the three of us got together, they had developed similar riffs that soon became musical hooks for the song. It was a fun collaboration."
The lead single "Takin' Over" is out now as well; Baeble warned listeners "Beware, it's wildly infectious" and Billboard called it "a lively jaunt of a tune" with "infectious ebullience.
The story of Companion mirrors the story of the band: it's one of collaboration, experimentation, and showing up for each other over and again. There are songs of hope and of desperation so that the prevailing mood is one of exchange and balance. In the spirit of experimentation, the band threw out the constraining rule that they would only write with acoustic instruments, a rule that was instated for their previous albums. While those sounds still center the creative impulses of the songs, the added electric influence and expanded instrumentation imbue the new songs with a dynamism that is irresistible.
The first half of the album is infused with catchy indie/rock, especially on songs such as "Can't Stay Away," "Takin' Over," and "Make It Through." These new songs adhere to Humming House's desire to move you and is emblematic of those moments in our lives where the rhythm of the things that we love - music, friends, family - commandeer our bodies until we're compelled to move in joy. "Sign Me Up" and "Companion" nod to Paul Simon, while later tracks like "Silver Lining," "Find What Waits," and "
London" gesture to the band's long engagement with classical composition and songwriter-driven melodies so strong in the realm of Americana.
Humming House is Justin Wade Tam,
Bobby Chase, Joshua Wolak, and
Benjamin Jones. The band formed organically out of jam sessions that Tam held in his living room in East Nashville - evidence that some of the best projects come from spontaneous collaboration and the subsequent seeing it through. Now, three albums and six years later, Humming House continues to embody what is best about the Nashville each transplant chooses to call home.
Track List:
01) Companion
02) Takin' Over
03) Hope In My Head
04) Make It Through
05) Sign Me Up
06) Can't Stay Away
07)
Silver Lining
08) London
09) I Want It All
10) Fall In The Water
11) Wishing Well
12) Find What Waits
Tour Dates:
09/01 - Thomas, WV @ The Purple Fiddle
09/02 - Front Royal, VA @ Appaloosa Festival
09/08 - Milwaukee, WI @ MAC Rooftop Series
09/09 - Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre (Rye Room)
09/10 - Denver, CO @ Levitt Pavilion
09/16 - Nashville, TN @ Americana Fest
09/21 - Knoxville, TN @ Open Chord*
09/22 - Chattanooga, TN @ Revelry Room*
09/23 - McMinnville, TN @ Isha
Institute of Inner Sciences
10/10 -
Little Rock, AR @ South on Main*
10/11 - Houston, TX @ White Oak
Music Hall*
10/12 - San Antonio, TX @ Sam's Burger Joint*
10/13 - Arlington, TX @ Levitt Pavilion*
10/14 - Oklahoma, City @ The Blue Door*
10/15 - Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room*
10/17 - Davenport, IA @ The Raccoon Motel*
10/18 - Evanston, IL @ SPACE*
10/19 - St. Louis, MO @ Blueberry Hill Duck Room*
10/20 - Columbus, OH @ Woodland Tavern*
10/21 - Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlie's*
10/31 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe*
11/01 - Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East*
11/02 - Lewiston, ME @ Bates College*
11/03 - Brownfield, ME @ The Stone Mountain Arts Center
11/04 - Burlington, VT @ Club Metronome*
11/05 - Philadelphia, PA @ MilkBoy*
11/07 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge*
11/08 - Vienna, VA @ Jammin Java*
11/09 - Charlotte, NC @ The Visualite Theatre*
11/10 - Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom
11/16 - Athens, GA @ The Foundry*
11/17 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl*
11/18 - Birmingham, AL @ Wordplay Theatre*
* w/ Becca Mancari
