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Hammock is the / project of composers Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson.

With no agenda, expectations, or even intention to release music, guitarists Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson began getting together as a way of letting the sounds inside of them find their way out into the open. Byrd describes it this way: “There are times when the need to create a thing begins to interrupt your life. And if you don’t give in to it, everything else starts to suffer.”

After about a year of sporadic sessions, Byrd and Thompson began to gather up all of the recordings - which were strewn about on everything from cassette recorders to hard drives to two-inch tape - and were surprised to discover that they had around forty pieces of music. Out of this pool of songs came their 2005 debut Kenotic, which introduced audiences to their densely textured aesthetic and shimmering guitar-driven compositions. Theirs is a unique sound - it is “sleepier” than the often-brash crescendos of their post-rocker cousins, drawing from the ethereal minimalism of Stars of the Lid and reminiscent of 80’s Brian Eno and Nick McCabe of the band The Verve. Byrd and Thompson describe it simply as “Southern Ambient”, citing the wide-open spaces of the South’s rural landscape as an all-pervading influence in their music (Byrd’s nickname in Arkansas was “Marc Marc Marc” because of his delay-drenched guitar sounds).

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  • rkazakov

    Есусе, как же красиво.

    Yesterday 5:30pm Reply
  • CreepyMozart

    Can't wait for Oblivion Hymns! [2]

    16 May 4:50pm Reply
  • Nazz3

    Well technically it's not a single, I just thought of it as so since it's one newly released track.

    12 May 5:10pm Reply
  • Soulamazing_

    V its not a single its just an unreleased track Or probably I am wrong? But I love how they keep making beautiful music so quick.

    12 May 4:50pm Reply
  • Nazz3

    Me neither, the new single is fantastic too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBD36rl5RAU

    11 May 11:11pm Reply
  • EslamMagdi

    Can't wait for Oblivion Hymns!

    11 May 5:07am Reply
  • Nazz3

    Anyone else feel like the main Hammock albums are going through a cycle with each of them being "set" in a different time of day? Kenotic would be the morning, Raising Your Voice the day, Chasing After Shadows the evening, Departure Songs the night. The covers definitely have that going on and I feel like the music really matches to them. From the Dust We Ran to Greet the Dawn would be set in twilight and going by that the next album would be set in dawn. Which would be very nice!

    3 May 8:46pm Reply
  • shallowdaydream

    interesting interview with some new info regarding future (re)releases http://news.wwr.com.tw/site/news/112

    3 May 8:21am Reply
  • railpresureflip

    29 Apr 11:24am Reply
  • nagibatrvasilii

    Belarusians forward. For Batka. Everyone who is distant from Lukashenko more than 500km suck my dick with the smell of Slavic Bulba./белорусы, вперед. За батьку. Все, кто отдален от Лукашенко более чем на 500км сосет мой славянский хуй с запахом бульбы.

    27 Apr 1:29pm Reply
  • Soulamazing_

    If you like Hammock's Post-Rock stuff you should check out Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life. just wanna share my fav music with the fans of my favourite band ever tbh no homo

    27 Apr 12:55am Reply
  • Crawling_Worm

    A day without some Hammock is incomplete [2]

    22 Apr 9:45pm Reply
  • mushroomsseason

    so much love in here

    18 Apr 4:57am Reply
  • BlackKing999

    I love this dreamy Ambient sounds.

    14 Apr 7:31pm Reply
  • alexawm182

    https://soundcloud.com/lasthoperecording/sets/one-day-of-december-beginning

    14 Apr 3:55pm Reply
  • kaitrodamus

    Still in love ♥

    5 Apr 9:00pm Reply
  • dhirajpatil

    One Hammock Song a Day !!

    1 Apr 3:55am Reply
  • begraven_

    ну уж, блин, этот хаммок, ребята, сплошная и бесконечная влюбленность.

    30 Mar 7:12pm Reply
  • EslamMagdi

    A day without some Hammock is incomplete. I LOVE YOU PEOPLE.

    28 Mar 12:12am Reply
  • CreepyMozart

    I absolutely love this band. "From the Dust... We Ran to Greet the Dawn" is great!

    25 Mar 11:43am Reply
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