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Hummer (Foals song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Hummer
| cover = Hummer.jpeg
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| type = single
| artist = Foals
| album =
| released = 12 March 2007
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| length = 2:57
| label = Transgressive
| writer = Jack Bevan, Edwin Congreave, Walter Gervers, Yannis Philippakis, Jimmy Smith
| producer = Gareth Parton
| prev_title = Try This on Your Piano/Look at My Furrows of Worry
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = Mathletics
| next_year = 2007
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"'Hummer'" is the second single by Foals and is the first single with Yannis Philippakis on lead vocals (the previous lead vocalist was Andrew Mears). It was released on 12 March 2007. It was recorded and mixed by producer Gareth Parton at the Fortress and Metropolis recording studios, London. It was released as a digital download and on vinyl on 23 April 2007.
Although initially released as a non-album single, it was added as a bonus track to later editions of Foals' first album 'Antidotes'.
The song was used in the second series of 'Skins'.
Critical reception
In an 8/10 review, 'Drowned In Sound' described the track as sounding "like Animal Collective rifling through The Raptures audio files on electro night". It came 12th in a top tracks of 2007 list compiled by 'NME'. In October 2011, 'NME' placed it at number 142 on its list of "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
Track listing
References
Category:2007 singles
Category:Foals songs
Category:2007 songs
Category:Songs written by Yannis Philippakis
Category:Transgressive Records singles
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