Hammock is an American musical project of composers Marc Byrd and Andrew Th… Read Full Bio ↴Hammock is an American musical project of composers Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson from Nashville, Tennessee, USA; formed in 2004. The project initially developed out of informal recording sessions between songwriting projects, and at present the band is a leading light in instrumental music with a unique, atmospheric sound that effortlessly melds elements of ambient, electronic, post-rock and neoclassical.
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).
Although hailed as a classic in the Shoegaze genre, Kenotic revealed a band inspired by many different musical styles, from Electronic, Ambient, Minimalism-Drone to Post-Rock. Byrd and Thompson expanded on their unique amalgam of these sounds on their next release, the July 2005 EP Stranded Under Endless Sky. What followed eight months later was somewhat of a stylistic turn for the band, the heavily conceptual longform drone-influenced album The Sleepover Series, Vol. 1 (Remastered). November 2006 saw the release of the band's proper sophomore LP, Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo, an album frequently hailed for its canny fusion of melodic accessibility and intrepid experimentalism. The band was attracting consistent acclaim from influential media such as Pitchfork, BBC, The Wire, and NPR, but most meaningfully to Byrd and Thompson, also from artists they admired like Mark Eitzel (solo and AMC), Brian McBride and Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid), Steve Kilbey and Tim Powles (The Church), BT, The Antlers, and Jonsi and Alex.
In Fall 2007, Hammock was invited by Jonsi Birgisson (Sigur Ros, solo artist, Jonsi & Alex) and Alex Somers (Parachutes and Jonsi & Alex) to perform at the overseas debut of their art collaboration, Riceboy Sleeps. This created confluence of firsts for all four artists, as it was to be Hammock's first-ever live show. Byrd and Thompson wrote new music especially for the occasion, and these songs would ultimately become Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow, a "studio performance" album of the music they played at the Riceboy Sleeps premiere. Birgisson and Somers as Riceboy Sleeps created the artwork for the release.
Chasing After Shadows...Living With the Ghosts followed in May 2010, along with a freestanding four-song Outtakes EP. Darker, heavier, and more massive sonically than Hammock's previous releases, the album was mixed by Tim Powles of The Church and features the duo's first usage of a horn section, string quartet, and live drums. David Altobelli's influential video for “"Breathturn"” was released in late March 2010. Chasing... was praised by BBC as "one of the most beautiful albums of the year" and received accolades from Pitchfork and PRI-syndicated show "Echoes", where it was named #1 in its "Best Albums of the Year" list.
On December 14, the duo released the EP Longest Year, a beat-less and wordless "mini-album" held for release until the dead of winter and whose title referenced the band's difficult 2010 (which included the near-total destruction of Byrd's home by an epic flood the likes of which had not been seen in Nashville in over 100 years).
The aforementioned digital-only EP of outtakes from the May 2010 LP, Chasing After Shadows...Living With the Ghosts, contained four songs, two of which were tagged with "instrumental" in the titles even though no other versions existed. That changed on October 25, 2011 with the release of the EP Asleep in the Downlights, which features vocals and lyrics from Steve Kilbey and Tim Powles of The Church and two new songs from Hammock.
Departure Songs, the band's first double album and fifth LP, was announced with the release of "Tape Recorder", a video from David Altobelli, which premiered at PAPERMAG on July 9, 2012. Officially released on October 2, the album was mixed by Tim Powles (The Church), mastered by Taylor Deupree (solo artist, 12K label), and features contributions from Keith Kenniff (Helios, Goldmund). Not as fragile as previous efforts, Departure Songs shows Hammock going massive as they meditate on grand themes of death and loss, retaining their signature approach to music-making, but this time out, heralding their muse in all capital letters. The album was frequently mentioned in 2012 "best-of" lists and held the top slot at Sputnik Music (across all genres) and was named as the #1 album of the year by the PRI-syndicated show "Echoes", Hammock's second such honor in the last three years.
On November 26, Hammock released Oblivion Hymns, their most ambitious recording to date. Hammock reaches as far as they ever have, adding a string quartet, children’s choir, accordion, French horn, glockenspiel, and more to their growing arsenal of instrumentation. Coupled with their familiar bank of guitars and effects, the end result is a special kind of magic waiting to be experienced, not simply listened to. Oblivion Hymns redefines what listeners have come to expect from a Hammock record, leaving all traces of traditional rock or pop far behind and introducing the band’s unique take on neoclassical music. Bathed in intricate layers of sweeping strings, strident horns, and delicately pressed keys, Oblivion Hymns rides a cascade of sound to the farthest-reaching corners of your heart and delivers a deep emotional connection, capable of ferreting out the most precious of memories. Oblivion Hymns is best described as an expedition across sight and sound. You won’t know where you’re headed, and you’re bound to feel drained by the end, but wherever you arrive, the journey will have been unforgettable.
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).
Although hailed as a classic in the Shoegaze genre, Kenotic revealed a band inspired by many different musical styles, from Electronic, Ambient, Minimalism-Drone to Post-Rock. Byrd and Thompson expanded on their unique amalgam of these sounds on their next release, the July 2005 EP Stranded Under Endless Sky. What followed eight months later was somewhat of a stylistic turn for the band, the heavily conceptual longform drone-influenced album The Sleepover Series, Vol. 1 (Remastered). November 2006 saw the release of the band's proper sophomore LP, Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo, an album frequently hailed for its canny fusion of melodic accessibility and intrepid experimentalism. The band was attracting consistent acclaim from influential media such as Pitchfork, BBC, The Wire, and NPR, but most meaningfully to Byrd and Thompson, also from artists they admired like Mark Eitzel (solo and AMC), Brian McBride and Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid), Steve Kilbey and Tim Powles (The Church), BT, The Antlers, and Jonsi and Alex.
In Fall 2007, Hammock was invited by Jonsi Birgisson (Sigur Ros, solo artist, Jonsi & Alex) and Alex Somers (Parachutes and Jonsi & Alex) to perform at the overseas debut of their art collaboration, Riceboy Sleeps. This created confluence of firsts for all four artists, as it was to be Hammock's first-ever live show. Byrd and Thompson wrote new music especially for the occasion, and these songs would ultimately become Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow, a "studio performance" album of the music they played at the Riceboy Sleeps premiere. Birgisson and Somers as Riceboy Sleeps created the artwork for the release.
Chasing After Shadows...Living With the Ghosts followed in May 2010, along with a freestanding four-song Outtakes EP. Darker, heavier, and more massive sonically than Hammock's previous releases, the album was mixed by Tim Powles of The Church and features the duo's first usage of a horn section, string quartet, and live drums. David Altobelli's influential video for “"Breathturn"” was released in late March 2010. Chasing... was praised by BBC as "one of the most beautiful albums of the year" and received accolades from Pitchfork and PRI-syndicated show "Echoes", where it was named #1 in its "Best Albums of the Year" list.
On December 14, the duo released the EP Longest Year, a beat-less and wordless "mini-album" held for release until the dead of winter and whose title referenced the band's difficult 2010 (which included the near-total destruction of Byrd's home by an epic flood the likes of which had not been seen in Nashville in over 100 years).
The aforementioned digital-only EP of outtakes from the May 2010 LP, Chasing After Shadows...Living With the Ghosts, contained four songs, two of which were tagged with "instrumental" in the titles even though no other versions existed. That changed on October 25, 2011 with the release of the EP Asleep in the Downlights, which features vocals and lyrics from Steve Kilbey and Tim Powles of The Church and two new songs from Hammock.
Departure Songs, the band's first double album and fifth LP, was announced with the release of "Tape Recorder", a video from David Altobelli, which premiered at PAPERMAG on July 9, 2012. Officially released on October 2, the album was mixed by Tim Powles (The Church), mastered by Taylor Deupree (solo artist, 12K label), and features contributions from Keith Kenniff (Helios, Goldmund). Not as fragile as previous efforts, Departure Songs shows Hammock going massive as they meditate on grand themes of death and loss, retaining their signature approach to music-making, but this time out, heralding their muse in all capital letters. The album was frequently mentioned in 2012 "best-of" lists and held the top slot at Sputnik Music (across all genres) and was named as the #1 album of the year by the PRI-syndicated show "Echoes", Hammock's second such honor in the last three years.
On November 26, Hammock released Oblivion Hymns, their most ambitious recording to date. Hammock reaches as far as they ever have, adding a string quartet, children’s choir, accordion, French horn, glockenspiel, and more to their growing arsenal of instrumentation. Coupled with their familiar bank of guitars and effects, the end result is a special kind of magic waiting to be experienced, not simply listened to. Oblivion Hymns redefines what listeners have come to expect from a Hammock record, leaving all traces of traditional rock or pop far behind and introducing the band’s unique take on neoclassical music. Bathed in intricate layers of sweeping strings, strident horns, and delicately pressed keys, Oblivion Hymns rides a cascade of sound to the farthest-reaching corners of your heart and delivers a deep emotional connection, capable of ferreting out the most precious of memories. Oblivion Hymns is best described as an expedition across sight and sound. You won’t know where you’re headed, and you’re bound to feel drained by the end, but wherever you arrive, the journey will have been unforgettable.
The Silence
Hammock Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'The Silence' by these artists:
-N Baby girl loving you is dangerous Loving you is rage Loving …
0.244 Paint the endless voices Make the earth fade Slowly my pain …
Aimee Another song To signify whats wrong Another sunny day that t…
Alexandra Burke You lift me up And knock me down I'm never sure just…
Arrows to Athens What is this- What is this that made us wonder who…
Avalanche City I remember a conversation At a restaurant with a friend of…
Balthazar These lines have drawn across them once more Could have them…
Bastille Tell me a piece of your history That you're proud to…
bathe Do you know, do you know the silence All too well,…
Blue Hollow THE SILENCE (words & music by Thomas & Ronald Poitras…
Bos Taurus Look inside of yourself and see that You used to be…
Burke Alexandra You lift me up And knock me down I'm never sure just…
Cap Wilder Fight Girl there's some things you've been waiting to fight …
Chinx Too much ground to cover I don't know where to start Can't…
Chinx ft French Montana Chinx Too much ground to cover I don't know where to …
Chinx ft. French Montana Chinx Too much ground to cover I don't know where t…
Claudia Kane This love has fallen from grace we fight, the sickness lies…
Connie Lansberg Mark Fitzgibbon Ben Hanlon Peter Hodges SHE TURNED THE HEcTER OFF cND SHE LET THE COLD CREEP…
D-Bit Graduated but you still be givin' lectures Shawty gon' be p…
Deepfield Was it something that we did to turn your back on…
Deos Frozen is my state of progress And the rot is spreading…
DEZERT ありふれたものに囚われて動けないまま深い海へ 戻れないほど暗い底へ落ちてゆくほら I see myself 歪んだ世界…
DJ Tiesto feat Delerium Give me Release Witness me I am Outside Give me peace Hea…
Edward and the Bimbo Chimps It's dark out here, but I'm standing fearless And nobody kno…
Ella Tiritiello You had the keychain since preschool It obviously means som…
Engines Can the surface shine If I'm still inside I've shut the bli…
Exitmusic Meat heart and soft soul, In debt and sold again, Our side…
fando and lis Couldn't call you on the phone Lost my bag so I…
Farse You take your seat by the window, And always get your…
Five Nines Let the beat play, brody Uh, solidarity like that muscle we…
Fog of Marina The silence is deafening Crashing waves Suppresio Veri Wind…
Frida Green I can promise I won't let you down I can say…
Gamma Ray When you're drowning, when you're freezin', when you're feel…
Gates of Ishtar Astral skies, burning with embrace Fourth of the flames, lo…
Go It Alone Wasting away. I've watched the sickness bleed you dry. Addic…
Gray Lines Of Perfection The night's ocean is colored red As the roses cut from…
h-pain My mind is sinking Drowning without release Exploding though…
Halestorm Found one of your old mixtapes Remembering listening to grac…
Hanna Marsh Last night I woke up three times And listened to the…
Heroic Fall and see, it's not that far What we called victory…
Jacobs Ladder Visions of the future going through your mind. When your…
Jas The Producer Hide my fingers and my blame You ran through a fire…
La Fábrica De La Luz The silence of my mind Can your fantasy I don't care (unint…
Lanks We come undone to save ourselves To save ourselves Part of …
Luca Debonaire & DJ Marlon Finjo ser invisível Pra não ter que te encarar Afogo na pisc…
Lyoness I’m paralyzed I don’t have to hear your cries Avoid…
Manchester Orchestra Why do I deserve the science to feel better about…
Mars & Mystre Silence tel que ce qui fut Avant jamais ne sera plus Par…
MAXIIM Knife wound through the chest Its my own doing Got a tightne…
Mayday Parade Torn in two, she lies awake, The moon lights up her…
Mayday Parade [ westpunk.ru ] Torn in two, she lies awake, The moon lights up her…
Mike Koglin Enjoy the silence.....…
Mindless Faith You said everything is O.K. Yet everything has me so afraid…
Monolink / Stephan Jolk There's a canyon of thoughts That's keeping us apart Thoug…
Om Unit feat. Jinadu I look into your eyes, such a delicate array of light surrou…
PAZ Cold black dress with the high heels on Gold necklace with…
R-Traxx They don't know I waited many days You play like a child I…
Rivers-End Time is up! I'm all out My giving tree is out of…
Schiller Looking back on what I've done I know I could not…
Schiller mit Meredith Call Looking Back On What I've Done, I Know I Could Not…
Schiller with Meredith Call Looking Back On What I′ve Done, I Know I Could Not…
Secret Cameras We train in underground tunnels We keep the light from comin…
Sink To the one I left for dead, these words are…
Sinthya Take me away from this place Inside this home, I'm dead You…
St. Vitus Dance J'm'enferme dans ma bulle, je n'regarde personne dans les co…
Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time I acquired knowledge and remained a fool And I required her…
Surface Of The Sun We refuel the fire Forcing us to breath in Always try to…
T.H.T. Fell in love for the night Yeah Fell in love with the…
The Accidentals We sat beneath the stars At a fire and played our…
The Collection Another knot of dreams They keep chewing up my sleep And spi…
The Life The fire spread so much Beyond my eyes can reach Stretching …
The Lucys This will be the last You hear from me A moment to…
The Rope I heard your silence as you speak But the lies scream…
The Sick Bags May the death do us part May the earth make us…
Trinacria Probed and persecuted The watcher out of place Or am…
various artists Hello darkness, my old friend, Ive come to talk with you…
Wideband Network Although it looks like it might be Something out of history…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Hammock:
(Tonight) We Burn Like Stars That Never Die We're all dreaming, We're all dreaming, We could die chasing…
... Like Starlight Into Day You say your time is over You seek but never find And…
Black Metallic I've never seen you when you're smiling It really gets under…
Cold Front Now you're so gone And it's so wrong Did I know you? I…
Dissonance I′ve been drinking Just to settle down We keep sinking Into …
Everything and Nothing We′re satellites Everything and nothing We're so alive Endle…
Glassy Blue Lose myself In glassy blue No one else Just me and you Stars…
Hiding But Nobody Missed You How could I forget your smile? (Secrets hidden in your eyes…
I Would Give My Breath Away Wish I could heal Your broken wings To fly Make every song C…
No Agenda A song within a song You get lost I go wrong We…
Parkers Chapel Moonlight glows on my skin The stars fill up the sky Remem…
Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo You swore you'd never be them You're just like them You're…
Shipwrecked On a cold night We lay down Under starlight We break down…
Sinking Inside Yourself Every time you wake up Too gone to see Every time you…
Still Secrets Remaining The words that you wasted They're spoken no more Your smile …
Ten Thousand Years Won't Save Your Life It takes so long for you to realize, Ten thousand years…
The Air Between Us Why you crying? I can't wait... Why you crying?…
This Is Not Enough This is not enough There is not enough Time fades away This …
Tres Dominé Tres dominé, my soul's become mas freo. Tres dominé, my soul…
Unspoken So hard Letting go My love now Like birds who flew away So f…
What Heaven Allows Take a little jump in the back of your mind, Take…
While All the Stars Are Falling Down Let′s kiss while all the stars are falling down Tonight we…
You Lost the Starlight in Your Eyes All the nights we tried and tried to find the starlight…
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@markdickens968
I can picture tony walking his dog whilst listening to this masterpiece
@ahooansari7158
I Watched AfterLife 1: 34th Time
@ZombieLoveNeverDies
This is the most beautiful music I have ever heard.
@greathills2574
Yeah I really like this kind of music sooo much
@seanlawrence7340
Afterlife!!! Absolutely incredible music, stunnigly beautiful. xxx
@bro0406
Really brings to the forefront how lonely life is. How every relationship is carefully cultivated in deceit. Every friendship created by hiding the truth under a veil of friendliness. How I would love to be myself just once...
@MichelleAlscherOriginal
I see Tony standing in Lisa’s hospital room with tears in his eyes and this song ... I‘m not crying, you are !
@TheAutumnmoon7
Stunning track! #afterlife #rickygervais brought me here.
@xxbananajoexx9580
Netflix's after life....😥❤
@jordanf7856
Facts....