Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Whoa, talk about a bad change of direction.

I hate to slam them, but Hum really let me down with this album. After listening to You'd Prefer an Astrounaout for so long, I was thrilled to hear some new material from the band. After several attempts of trying to get into the noise I found coming off this album, I eventually just gave up and put the damn thing away. I don't understand how such a good band could take such a drastic turn towards the worse in-between the span of one album. Downward is Heavenward is a big, slapped together mesh of static and sloppy guitar work. It's characteristic of something you'd here from Sonic Youth(ugh). After reading some of these reviews, I'm glad to see some people liked it. Maybee the band will stick around long enough to make something that hits my intrest again.