Hammock

Hammock – Love in the Void (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:19 minutes | 797 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Post-Rock, Dreampop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hammock Music

Breaking from the strange monotony and abnormal norms that took hold during two years of pandemic life, Hammock returns with Love in the Void, an album that looks to the future, seizes the present, and unabashedly relishes the experiences and bonds that bring meaning to our days. Known for crafting orchestral works of stirring cinematic ambience, on Love in the Void the Nashville-based duo of Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson bring guitar-forward, heart-pounding urgency to songs that shout through and shatter the static of complacency.

(more…)

Hammock – Universalis (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:35 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hammock Music

Nashville’s Hammock follows up 2017’s critically-acclaimed Mysterium with Universalis, the second installment of a planned three-album series. While Mysterium took listeners down a horizontal path that explored themes of death and grief, Universalis begins a vertical, upward movement back toward the light.

At times, Universalis calls back to Hammock’s 2006 album Raising Your Voice… Trying to Stop an Echo, while also retaining Mysterium’s deep ambient, neoclassical style. The band also finds itself rediscovering some of its earliest influences, including Low and Red House Painters. With Universalis, Hammock invites listeners to lose themselves within its layers of sound, while also embracing the beauty in its raw openness and silence.

To achieve the sound of Universalis, Hammock brought on Francesco Donadello (A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Olafur Arnalds, Johann Johannsson) and Peter Katis (Interpol, Jonsi, The National), who each mixed portions of the album. The album artwork was curated by The Fuel and Lumber Company with drawings by Pete Schulte, and Matt Kidd (Slow Meadow) returned to play piano and provide additional engineering.

(more…)

Hammock – Undercurrents (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 04:07:04 minutes | 2,33 GB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hammock Music

“Staring out the window… going for a walk… Is there beauty in the stuff of everyday things? Is there something mysterious about an average Tuesday night? When I was in high school some friends of mine accidentally played an unlabeled cassette of my music. The dawn was beginning to creep after a long night of typical teenage escape. When I ran into them a couple of days later they couldn’t stop talking about how it enhanced their experience. In that spirit… these long forms were created.

(more…)

Hammock – Silencia (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:09 minutes | 547 MB | Genre: Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hammock Music

Silencia is the latest collection of evocative and lustrous compositions by the Nashville duo Hammock. The band’s 10th LP, Silencia closes a trilogy that began with 2017’s Mysterium, and’in the tradition of works by Arvo Pärt and Georgy Sviridov, and writers such as Li-Young Li and Maggie Ross’it is a balm, gesturing at the healing that can ascend in silence. Slow-churning and contemplative, Silencia most prominently features strings orchestrated by Viktor Orri Árnason (Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds), mists of guitar by Hammock’s Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson, the hushed drone of horns, and 20 elegiac voices from the Budapest Art Choir. The record was mixed and mastered by Francesco Donadello (Winged Victory for the Sullen, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Ben Frost) in Berlin. Founded in 2003, Hammock’s music has appeared widely in film and television, most recently in Ricky Gervais’s ‘After Life’, and it has been praised by The Wire, Pitchfork, NPR, The Atlantic, and other major culture media.

(more…)

Hammock – Mysterium (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:07 minutes | 549 MB | Genre: Ambient, Modern Classical, Post Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hammock Music

The Nashville duo Hammock – celebrated by Pitchfork, NPR, the BBC, The Atlantic, and Ricky Gervais – returns on August 25 with Mysterium, the band’s eighth album since its founding in 2003.

Composed as a memorial to Clark Kern, a son-like figure to Hammock co-founder Marc Byrd who died in 2016 from the tumor strain NF2, Mysterium merges modern classical, ambient, and choral music, and it’s of a piece with recent records by Max Richter and Jóhann Jóhannsson. The gorgeous, hour-long collection features contributions from the Berlin mix engineer Francesco Donadello (Winged Victory for the Sullen, Ólafur Arnalds), Peter Katis (The National, Jónsi, Interpol), and the Hamburg orchestrator Roman Vinuesa (“Iris,” “Umrika”), who transcribed scores for the Budapest Art Choir.

(more…)

Hammock – Kenotic (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [Remastered] (2015/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:35:28 minutes | 865 MB | Genre: Post Rock, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hammock Music

Hammock’s debut release. Now expanded & remastered. Hailed for its emotional resonance & masterful melding of ambient shoegaze & electronic. Broad washes of crystalline guitar tones and gently pulsating synths convey a sense of broadness and space. This is not simple drone music; it’s complex sophisticated & dense but it’s also not alienating pseudo-intellectual or moribund… Hammock make music that is filled with human emotion & passion.

(more…)

Hammock – Elsewhere (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:59 minutes | 415 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Post-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hammock Music

Seeking overlooked beauty and prizing reflection in a distracted world, Hammock creates cinematic music for the road less traveled. In stirring works of shimmering post-rock ambience that swell with hope and melancholic nostalgia, the Nashville-based duo of Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson immerse listeners in living visions of moments long past, animating life’s fond remembrances and scarring losses with gentle lens-flare harmonics, heart-surging neoclassical drama, and pensive silence. A direct challenge to the passive existence of modern life, where everything can be experienced but precious little is felt, Hammock demands, and richly rewards, patience and contemplation.

(more…)

Hammock – It’s in This Lie (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:02 minutes | 365 MB | Genre: Ambient, Post Rock, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hammock Music

Hammock have released their latest double single “It’s in This Lie” w/ “It’s OK to Be Afraid of the Universe” today, off their upcoming 12th studio album Love in the Void, due out on January 27 via their own Hammock Music thru Secretly Distribution.

Discussing “It’s in This Lie”, Hammock’s Marc Byrd stated, “This song has an immediacy to it… like the sound of a foundation crumbling. We don’t want people sleeping to this one… it’s about waking up.”

(more…)

Hammock – Kenotic (2005/2015) [10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 95:28 minutes | 909 MB | Genre: Rock, Ambient
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: Bandcamp | Artwork: Digital booklet | © Hammock Music

Hammock’s debut release. Now expanded & remastered. Hailed for its emotional resonance & masterful melding of ambient shoegaze & electronic. Broad washes of crystalline guitar tones and gently pulsating synths convey a sense of broadness and space. This is not simple drone music; it’s complex sophisticated & dense but it’s also not alienating pseudo-intellectual or moribund… Hammock make music that is filled with human emotion & passion. (more…)

Hammock – Everything And Nothing (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 94:21 minutes | 1 GB | Genres: Alternative,Electronic, Ambient
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover | Hammock Music

Hammock returns with Everything and Nothing, the Nashville duos first full-length album since 2013s critically-acclaimed Oblivion Hymns. With Everything and Nothing, Hammock has entered oblivion a place of personal struggle, doubt, and change and come out the other side; hopeful. The experience is meticulously woven into each song, shared with listeners through intricate melodies, compelling beats, and solemn vocals. In some ways, Everything and Nothing is the spiritual successor to the bands 2006 breakout album Raising Your Voice… Trying to Stop an Echo. It recalls the same mastery of sound and storytelling, destined to spark every listeners imagination.

(more…)