(Petrusich) THE HUSH SOUND (Tuesday) Greta Salpeter, vocalist and pianist for this Chicago quartet, has the kind of voice — improbably expressive, booming, pitch-perfect — that wouldn't be out of place on Broadway.
Stump, who co-produced "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?" from Infinity on High, was also working on fellow Fueled By Ramen act The Hush Sound's album Like Vines.
When the wind climbs, a kind of elation blows through the house — it's the hushing sound of the leaves outside and the way the breeze sweeps the floors and lifts the curtains and slams the doors.
The music was mostly hushed, with sounds spaced out amid moments of silence.
With all that hush, adding sound must have felt like planting a big clumsy foot in the middle of a perfect sheet of untouched snow.
And as always when a storm of this dimension crosses New York City, what it brings in greatest abundance is a muffled hush, the sound of nothing doing.
The moment when the tune breaks into nothing,No words, no music, the hush a sound of waterRushing underground, until a boy Laughs while two others wrestle for the mike,And then all three are laughing, hamming it up — "Heavens to Mergatroyd!" "A wise guy, hey!" — Just that, those seconds, "gosh oh gee oh," justThe voices of a ghostly slapstick nowFrom reel to reel to ferry us across.
The band enjoyed commercial success in the UK between 1996 and 1999, notching up a number of Top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart, including "Tattva", "Hey Dude", "Govinda", "Hush", and "Sound of Drums".
Allmusic's Jon O'Brien felt the track was an "unexpected chart-topper ... [it] is an oddball break-up song whose stuttering rhythms, reggae hooks, and hushed vocals sound like The Police as remixed by the XX".
As the referee blew his whistle and marched into the penalty area moments before half-time a hush descended, the sound of total bewilderment.
