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- Date Released: May 6, 2008
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Ambient
- Label: Darla / IODA
Nashville duo have their heads in the clouds
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We Say...
Nashville, TN duo Hammock's latest release for Darla is an amazing set of soaring instrumentals. Unlike the static sound created by some other ambient knob twiddlers, Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow ignores the impulse to unleash a flat sine wave and blithely stare. The entire album floats on an echo-y haze, but this isn't drone; dreamy synths and cello twist and curve to alluring effect. Jonsi from Sigur Ros pushed Hammock to release this album (he also co-produced the cover art) and the kinship is evident. Much of Maybe They Will Sing plays like () on 3/4 speed - waves of sound ebbing and flowing, Hammock clearly have their heads in the clouds. Let's hope they stay up there.
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They Say...
In August of 2007, Hammock were invited to play their first ever live gig at an art show after-party to be attended by Sigur Rós' Jon Thor Birgisson, a big influence on the band. Challenged with reproducing their lush and complex recorded sound live, the duo chose to go minimal, and find out if what really comprised the Hammock magic was as simple as just the guitars in their hands and the pedals at their feet. They found that it is. This album, then, is a studio recording of that "start of Act II" set, enhanced with a supportive cello from Sixpence None the Richer's Matt Slocum. Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow is Hammock reduced to their deepest essence, a still and stunning beauty. Dropping the vocals, dropping beats, Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson find the core of their dream-ambient muse. Gone are the Boards of Canada mannerisms of Kenotic, gone are the sometimes bluesy guitars of Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo, gone are the yearning, aching vocals. And what remains is a sound both simple and unaffected. Byrd and Thompson shed any emotional armor they wore, and appear here as unafraid to express their fragility or vulnerability, as people who know that there is nothing to be afraid of, who know that it is OK to express their pain, their joy, their overarching hopefulness. Maybe operates outside of genre, far beyond the now obvious limitations of the dream pop/shoegaze scene Hammock cut their teeth in.
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| 01. |  |
Gold Star Mothers |
7:40 |
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| 02. | |
City in the Dust on My Window |
7:11 |
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| 03. | |
This Kind of Life Keeps Breaking Your Heart |
5:44 |
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| 04. | |
Mono No Aware |
6:41 |
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| 05. | |
Three Sisters |
4:24 |
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| 06. | |
Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow |
5:41 |
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| 07. | |
Elm |
5:26 |
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| 08. | |
Razorback Drug Town |
3:50 |
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| 09. | |
Eighty-Four Thousand Hymns |
5:42 |
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| 10. | |
We Will Say Goodbye to Everyone |
7:44 |
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| 11. | |
All of Your Children Are Addicts |
1:22 |
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11 Total Tracks, 61:25 Total Length
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Credits
- Jim DeMain - Mastering // Derri Daugherty - Mixing // Derri Daugherty - String Engineer // Matt Slocum - Cello // Marc Byrd - Group Member // Thomas Petillo - Photography // Christine Glass Byrd - Vocals // Andrew Thompson - Design // Andrew Thompson - Layout Design // Andrew Thompson - Group Member
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