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.
Together Alone
Hammock Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Together Alone' by these artists:
ALLFLAWS The timeless souls gather around, the circle of strength sur…
Anouk You grabbed my hand and twisted it, so you had…
Belau You waste another day You run around like crazy You care wha…
Bruce Cockburn So many things to see in this old world But all…
Caliban Your life is life, mine is just a lie!!! Time passes…
Central Sacrament New hunger, no longer I'm gonna feed myself with pain yeah E…
Chris While & Julie Matthews Four floors, four doors 16 steps connect them all That's me,…
City In The Sea My friend you're dying inside It's hard to see you slip…
Cockburn Bruce So many things to see in this old world But all…
Corde Oblique "We live as we dream - alone" (James Conrad) Only the innoc…
Crowded House together alone above and beneath we were as close as anyone …
Dakota Star You bring the silence, To my world in a stay. Can we…
Daniel Kahn Oy, brider, eyb got vet undz nisht helfn Lomir zikh bafrayen…
Eric Anders Is this all? Is that what you said? Again we fall As we…
George Jones & Tammy Wynette She watches movies but he don't He watches football but she…
Jessica Vale I felt your gaze on me tonight Don't care if I'm…
Lena Minder You say it’s time and there’s nowhere to hide and if…
M. Wivolin Mind racing I can barely catch up Hit you up to…
MAYPINE These words, best left unspoken Our paradise, unbroken Can w…
Melanie We'll grow old, we'll take care of each other I'll…
Melanie safka We'll grow old, we'll take care of each other I'll…
Mount Sims All alone with you. All alone with you. All alone with you. …
Soft Cell Another day melts into the evening I sit alone and watch…
Sound Of The Sirens I feel your absence in the night only you can make…
The Last Dance When did I choose to be blind When did we come…
The Locals Chase me down, turn me over, you are mine Say something…
timi tamminen If I told you a secret would you be willing…
Wild Culture We started out like everyone Falling in and out of love Out…
Zameer Rizvi I see it. You're falling apart. I know you can't see…
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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Bwheeler
What is the name of the girl in the videos?
@Letozan
The cat at 4:41 reminded me of my cat which I had since 2008, as they look so identical.
But he was sadly hit by a car back in 2011, I ended up finding Hammock later on, and I listened to it every single day.
Something about this ambient post rock music helped me through a very difficult time, which almost had me losing my life multiple times.
Seeing the cat in this video put me in tears while listening to this.
It's been over 10 years since my cat passed away, so I guess this video tried to remind me of him to remind myself how far I've gotten in life in 10 years.
But what I learned from this loss, is that; Losing someone is not a reason to lose yourself.
And whoever person with a painful loss reads this in the future;
It's only temporary, it may take 10 years or even 20 years,
but be happy that it takes that long to get over the pain
because it truly meant you cared and that you loved.
You're a good person.
@supernova_g
Man, I'm 26 and Hammock has been part of my life for 11 years now. I can't even explain what I feel when hearing these songs and think of what I've been trough these years. Hammock vibrations just make me go back in time and back to myself.
@larissaashley5337
I am 26 too and same!! 12 years and the videos are amazing! I am glad I kept revisiting the songs on YT even though I use spotify now. I just always came back here and finding these recently posted videos was a humbling surprise (:
@jeunegomez293
same here.
@Hridbeje9w73v
It's made so you can feel something.
@no1inparticular426
Ah yes, I first discovered hammock in 2011 when I was 15, ❤ im 26 now, songs take me back to those times, to me they tell the story of my life through Ambient music
@michelindigo4094
Same for me dear one 😌
@tasartir666
Be strong, people...
This life is so hard, but it's worth it, be kind each other!
Thanks for that, Hammock! 🖤
@michaeld.williamsiii9026
This life is indeed hard, not the easiest at times, going through a pretty dark deeply sad time. I appreciate your words, @STNX along with Hammock’s phenomenal music that often provides escapism from it all...😢💫🤍
@tasartir666
@Michael D. Williams III Together we can be stronger in this world! 💜🥰