humMusic, and the people who made it
Music that respects the record
Big artwork, lyrics that move in time, a queue you can see and drag, and the credits one tap from play.
11:04
Playing from album
Low Tide, High Tide
Paper Boats
Meera Ilango · 2025
1:42Track 2 of 9 · Studio quality-2:36
1:22We folded the week into paper boats
1:30and pushed them off the step
1:37You said the rain would stop by eight
1:46It didn't. Neither did we.
1:54Harbour lights, harbour lights
Meera Ilango, Devaki Rau, Joel Fernandes
and nine more people made this song
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Lyrics
Queue
Credits
Paper Boats
Meera Ilango · Low Tide, High Tide
1:42
of 4:18
1:22We folded the week into paper boats
1:30and pushed them off the step
1:37You said the rain would stop by eight
1:46It didn't. Neither did we.
Twelve people made this song. Hum names all twelve.
A Goat Scale concept · music streaming
A record ends. Before the room notices, something else has started.
7 sec
between the last note of an album you chose and a song the app chose for you.
The queue is behind a menu
and you cannot drag anything in it
Autoplay decides the evening
the record ends and the app keeps going
One name on the credits
the other eleven people are not there
The category is genuinely good at finding you music. It is careless with the record once it has.
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A generic player, drawn here to argue with a pattern. It is not any real product’s screen.
Hum’s argument, in one line: a song is a record made by people, so the lyrics, the queue and the credits are never more than one tap from play.
Everything the category does well stays. The silent hand-off does not.
The whole record, on one screen
Nothing here is behind a menu. The artwork is the size it deserves, the lyrics move with the song, and the credits sit under the scrubber.
Meera Ilango, Low Tide, High Tide — an invented record on an invented label.
11:04
Playing from album
Low Tide, High Tide
Paper Boats
Meera Ilango · 2025
1:42Track 2 of 9 · Studio quality-2:36
1:22We folded the week into paper boats
1:30and pushed them off the step
1:37You said the rain would stop by eight
1:46It didn't. Neither did we.
1:54Harbour lights, harbour lights
Meera Ilango, Devaki Rau, Joel Fernandes
and nine more people made this song
Credits
Lyrics
Queue
Credits
A waveform, not a hairlineYou can see the quiet verse you want to land on
1:37 — the line playing nowTimestamps on a rail. Tap a line and the song goes there.
Twelve names, one tap awayWriter, producer, the cellist. Under the song, not in a menu.
Lyrics, queue, creditsThe three things a record needs, on the player itself
Queue
What is next, in the open, and yours to move
Seventeen Summers
Meera Ilango · moving to third
4:41
Press and hold, drag, let go. The queue is a list you own, not a prediction you watch.
Stop after this song
Nothing autoplays. The app goes quiet at 11:07.
27 min 39 sec left in the queue
Three songs from this album, then four from a playlist you made. It says which is which.
11:04
QueueClear
Playing now
Paper Boats
Meera Ilango · 2:36 left
Stop after this song
Nothing autoplays. The app goes quiet at 11:07.
NEXT FROM THIS ALBUM3 songs
Coimbatore Rain
Meera Ilango · 3:05
Seventeen Summers
Meera Ilango · 4:41
The Long Platform
Meera Ilango · 2:58
THEN FROM LATE FERRY MIX4 of 24
Ghat Road, 2 a.m.
Kabir Two Sides · 4:14
Cold Filter Coffee
The Pallikaranai Set · 3:17
Kodai Bus Stand
Kabir Two Sides · 3:46
Second Bridge
Shanti Rajagopal · 5:38
27 min 39 sec leftSave as playlist
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Stop after this songThe off switch that autoplay never gives you
Grip handles, not guessesDrag any row. It stays where you put it.
A Goat Scale concept
Library and downloads
It tells you exactly what will play with no network
78 songs, 2.14 GB, six things you chose to keep. Offline mode says what it covers instead of quietly failing on the train.
2.14 GB of 8 GB set aside6 items · 78 songs
Low Tide, High Tide
412 MB
Neon Ghats
528 MB
Evening Ragas, Vol. 2
496 MB
Late Ferry Mix
388 MB
Bright Fever
214 MB
Tuesday Tapes
102 MB
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Offline mode is on
78 songs, 2.14 GB, play with no network. Nothing else will load.
2.14 GB of 8 GB set aside27% used
Low Tide, High Tide
Album · Meera Ilango · 9 songs
412 MB
Studio
Neon Ghats
Album · Kabir Two Sides · 11 songs
528 MB
Studio
Evening Ragas, Vol. 2
Album · Shanti Rajagopal · 6 songs
496 MB
Studio
Late Ferry Mix
Playlist · Made by you · 24 songs
388 MB
Saver
Bright Fever
Album · The Pallikaranai Set · 10 songs
214 MB
Saver
Tuesday Tapes
Playlist · Made by you · 18 songs
102 MB
Saver
Paper Boats
Meera Ilango · 1:42 of 4:18
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Offline mode78 songs will play. Nothing else loads.
Sizes, not a spinnerStudio or Saver, and what each costs you
Studio keeps the record at 1,411 kbps. Saver is 320. The list says which you kept, album by album.
Six downloads, 2,140 MB. The bar adds up to every one of them.
A Goat Scale concept
Discover
A mix that shows its working
30 songs, 1 hr 54 min. Not a black box: every week it names the three songs you replayed and the reason each new one is in there.
Because you replayed these three
Paper Boats
Meera Ilango
14
plays
Ghat Road, 2 a.m.
Kabir Two Sides
9
plays
Cold Filter Coffee
The Pallikaranai Set
7
plays
Take one out and the mix changes on Thursday. You can see what it listens to.
Same producerShares a bass playerSame labelYou replayed their single
Every added song carries one of these. No reason, no place in the mix.
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Your Thursday Mix
30 songs · 1 hr 54 min
6 you know, 24 you don’t
PlayRefreshed Thursday 6 a.m.
Because you replayed these three
Paper Boats
Meera Ilango
14 plays
Ghat Road, 2 a.m.
Kabir Two Sides
9 plays
Cold Filter Coffee
The Pallikaranai Set
7 plays
So we added, and here is whyEdit
Pier Number Four · Anjali Keskar
Joel Fernandes produced it too
Two Trains, One Ticket · Noor Tharakan
Rohan Pai plays bass on both
Gooseberry Season · The Pallikaranai Set
You replayed their 2024 single
Slow Sodium · Vetri Loganathan
Same label as Neon Ghats
Paper Boats
Meera Ilango · 1:42 of 4:18
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6 you know, 24 you don’t. Refreshed Thursday at six in the morning, and it says so.
A Goat Scale concept
The player, twice the size
hum · a Goat Scale concept
Track 2 of 9
Low Tide, High Tide · 38 min 24 sec
Salt Line Records, 2025
Paper Boats
Meera Ilango
1:42Studio quality · 1,411 kbps-2:36
1:22We folded the week into paper boats
1:30and pushed them off the step
1:37You said the rain would stop by eight
1:46It didn't. Neither did we.
1:54Harbour lights, harbour lights
Who made Paper Boats12 people
Written by
Meera Ilango, Devaki Rau
Produced by
Joel Fernandes
Voice
Meera Ilango
Guitars
Sam Verghese
Double bass
Rohan Pai
Flute
Nanditha Iyer
Percussion
Iqbal Sherif
Violin
Leela Menon, Arjun Bhatt
Cello
Tara D'Souza
Mixed by
Anitha Subramani
Mastered by
Peter Ovung
Recorded 9–14 February 2025 at Third Floor Studio, Bengaluru.
Salt Line Records. Tap any name to hear everything they played on.
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Some nights only one record will do.
Put it on. Nothing follows it, nothing interrupts it, and the twelve people who made it are right there under the song.
Music that respects the record.
A Goat Scale concept · music streaming
humPaper Boats · 4 min 18 sec · Salt Line Records
12
people, named on the player
Twelve people made a four-minute song.
A streaming app will name one of them. Hum lists all twelve under the scrubber — the lyricist, the double bass, the woman who mixed it — one tap from play.
01Meera IlangoVoice, music
02Devaki RauLyrics
03Joel FernandesProducer
04Sam VergheseGuitars
05Rohan PaiDouble bass
06Nanditha IyerFlute
07Iqbal SherifPercussion
08Leela MenonViolin
09Arjun BhattViolin
10Tara D'SouzaCello
11Anitha SubramaniMix
12Peter OvungMaster
Recorded in Bengaluru over six days in February 2025.A Goat Scale concept
humDesign system · music streaming
Ink
#0B0912
ground
Panel
#1A1526
cards
Line
#2E2740
hairlines
Ember
#FF9E5A
playing, active
Orchid
#A98CFF
the artwork glow
Warm white
#F6F0E9
type
Familjen Grotesk · 500, 600, 700
Paper Boats
Song titles, lyrics, headlines, the mark
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Inter · 400, 500, 600
Everything you read: rows, meta, sizes, reasons.
14 px minimum in the app. Tabular numerals on every duration, size and count, so columns of times line up and nothing jumps as the song plays.
Seven invented sleeves, seven faces. Every cover is drawn, none repeat.Instrument Serif · Archivo Black · Cormorant · Plex Mono · Syne · Courier Prime
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Icons · 24 grid, 1.8 stroke
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