Merchants Of Air
  • Home
  • Reviews
    • Albums
    • Concerts
  • Interviews
  • Giveaways
  • Playlists
  • Shop
    • Merchants Of Air releases
  • About us
    • About Us
    • Writers Wanted
    • Logos and banner
    • Advertise
    • Mailinglist

Hammock – When sound is the matter for dreams

12/9/2016

Comments

 
Picture
Picture
support Merchants Of Air, check out our shirt designs
facebook
Hammock is a post-rock duo from Nashville, consisting of Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson, and they have been on the run since 2004. With a very personal signature sound that sometimes is hard to categorize, Hammock is a beautiful musical artwork, and their lack of commercial appeal can translate into the beauty and the sensibility on which both Byrd and Thompson are able to translate feelings of pain, astonishment, anguish and excitement into something so transcendental, so underground, and yet so simple, talking to your mind and to your senses, and to your inner perceptions of the world – devoid of everything superficial – establishing to your soul deep connections that only a few genres of music can achieve, by the mindset of a true philosophical journey through music. 

As an instrumental endeavor filled with the unexpected that speaks to your heart, Hammock is not for the weak. And, although being primarily an alternative and almost completely underground act, one of their most recent endeavors, the 2013 album entitled Oblivion Hymns, attracted positive reviews from several major music charts, radios and magazines, being classified as one of the best albums of the year. But all of these compliments and recognition from the music world is nothing but a footnote on the lives of Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson, that are always focused on the music, never interested on a place in the spotlight, which can be seen by their constant working: they are always on tour, and always prepared to make another album. Which is fantastic, by the way. Musicians make the world a better place, whereas rock-stars make it worse. 

Of course, with slow paced and long songs, with seven, eight, ten minutes, sometimes longer, you can fall asleep if you’re on the mood, but this is just another major point in Hammock’s music! Besides being beautiful, you can relax while listening to it, and it is one of the most beautiful to hear when you’re all alone in the dead of night. Hammock is not just music, its art for the sake of art, but you can find in it your own mindset of wonders as well. You have to listen, and prove to yourself the places in which such a cosmic sound can lead your thoughts and senses. Usually publishing their albums by their own label, Hammock Music, we can’t expect the mainstream to have an interest in it. This is music for no ordinary persons, peaceful, calm, transcendental and cosmic to the roots.       
 

​Wagner
Comments
    subscribe to our newsletter

    Archives

    April 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015

    Categories

    All
    2015
    2016
    Belgium
    Best Of
    Biography
    Christmas
    Concert
    Contemporary
    Critique
    Desertfest
    Electronic
    Famous Bands
    Fanboying
    Festivals
    Halloween
    Lists
    Merchants Of Air
    Metal
    Pop Music
    Rants
    Rik's Rarities
    Rock
    Songs With Stories
    The Metal Deck
    What's In A Bandname

    RSS Feed

Find us on

facebook
google+
twitter
tumblr
​
minds

About Us

Contact
FAQ
Logos and banners
© COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.