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And you can try on these different masks and these different ways of living, but fundamentally, the constant was starting in like, well, third grade when my parents divorced was drums, always a drummer.

I was, This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.

I want to play something for you. I'm The

The You're hearing the pod by Hum, featuring my guest Brian St. Pier on drums.

Formed in 1989 in Champaign, Illinois, Hum developed an engrossingly expansive sound world that solidified

on 1995's You'd Prefer an Astronaut and reached an apex in 1998 on the band's final album, Downward

is Heavenward. Extraordinarily bold yet precise, St. Pierce drumming is the chart that

navigates the listener's journey through

dense and fuzzy fields of noise.

Although Hume achieved a moderate amount of popular success, their influence on subsequent generations

of musicians has far outweighed their commercial performance.

And as you'll hear, the band has recently reconvened to begin work on a fifth album.

And now my conversation with Brian St. Pier. My dad was a lot of stuff, mostly a sales guy, mostly a sales guy in the automotive industry like finance and insurance.

So he put on a suit and went to car dealerships and sold finance plans, computer packages and

all that. And before that was a truck driver. And then my mom has been a nurse for her whole life.

Oh, so that's mine. Yeah? And is your dad a good salesman? Well, I don't know.

Is there such a thing?

I mean, and I say that as a guy who does that.

Like, that's what I do too.

It's a, it's a hard thing to make a living trying to, like, change the behavior of others.

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