Low Hum

Emerging as the introspective, mind-bending synth-pop endeavor of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Collin Desha, Low Hum fuses propulsive club rhythms, layered sonic grit, and ethereal, expansive soundscapes. Across successive releases the project's sonic reach broadened into more panoramic dimensions, starting with the debut full-length Room to Breathe in 2019, moving through the fanciful Nonfiction in 2021, and arriving at Terra Incognita in 2024, where symphonic noise-pop textures surfaced prominently.

Before Low Hum took shape, Desha supplied guitar and synth work to the Los Angeles indie-rock band Vanaprasta; when most of that group, Desha included, reconfigured as Sun Drug, they issued a self-titled EP in 2015. He first put out synth-centric material under his own name in 2016 through Hit City USA, later sharing production responsibilities for Low Hum's first EP with drummer and engineer Jules de Gasperis. Influenced by the persistent dance pulses and mood of '80s post-punk's darker wing, the self-titled debut EP appeared on Chain Letter Collective in early 2018. Room to Breathe, the project's first album and a kindred effort, followed on Last Gang Records in mid-2019, with Desha producing and de Gasperis mixing.

Desha co-produced the October 2021 follow-up Nonfiction alongside Jon Joseph (Mini Trees, Bayonne), gradually steering the sound toward a more cinematic palette that recalled Tame Impala. He expanded that direction further on the self-produced Terra Incognita, Low Hum's third album for Last Gang, issued in May 2024. The label then released the industrial-tinged non-album single "Romantic Rights" that July.