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Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow (CD)

$12.50

Released May 2008: CD format, 61 minutes. After four well-loved and critically lauded recordings, Hammock returns with a new full-length, special release, Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow, which features eleven new songs and original artwork by Riceboy Sleeps (Jonsi Birgisson of the Grammy-nominated Sigur Ros and Alex Somers of Parachutes). At the invitation of Birgisson and Somers, Hammock gave their first-ever live performance at the after party celebration of the Riceboy Sleeps overseas debut art exhibition, held in Hot Springs, AR in August 2007. Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow is the studio recording of the original music written and played by Hammock for the occasion. “Studio performance” is a more accurate phrase, as the guitars for these songs were recorded live, just as the band performed them, later rounded out by Matt Slocum’s expansive, emotive cello. This is Hammock reduced to an essence—a core. There are no intrusions. No beats. No lyrics. Nothing to break the spell or jar the listener out of the moment. Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow has all of the vulnerability and spontaneity of a performance, yet all of the rich, cinematic beauty of a Hammock studio recording. Hammock’s self-imposed minimalism is expertly merged with their hallmark melodic songwriting, resulting in the most focused, mesmeric and deeply personal album in their catalog to date.

"Best of 2008" mentions in NY Examiner, Echoes (PRI/NPR Radio), The Silent Ballet, Clash Music (UK), Headphone Commute, among others...

"7.2...an immersive listen if played at the right volume and paid the right amount of attention...I swear it practically changes the temperature...If you have any kind of even passing affinity for atmospheric music with an uncanny ability to stimulate any of your five senses, hear this." --Pitchfork

"...the aural equivalent of a Zen garden, a place to get lost (and found) in divine solitude." --Terrascope (UK)

“...This Kind of Life Keeps Breaking Your Heart” features billowing waves of sound, drifting like glacial mist. The backward swipes of guitar swells during “Mono No Aware” pass like fenceposts outside the window on a hazy, late-night drive. Matt Slocum of newly reignited popsters Sixpence None the Richer guests with lullaby cello. --The Big Takeover

"...a cathedral of sound." --Losing Today (Italy)

"If the more serene passages of Pyramids are tuned to your tastes, and you’ve admired Stars Of The Lid’s slowly-shifting aural dynamics in the past, make Hammock’s ‘Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow’ a near-future purchase." --Clash Magazine (UK)

"...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...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...Maybe operates outside of genre, far beyond the now obvious limitations of the dream pop/shoegaze scene Hammock cut their teeth in. This is something new, something needed, a balm for the battered souls who surround us." --All Music Guide

"...you'd be hard-pressed to find any music under the loose banner of post-rock as unreservedly beautiful and stately as 'Mono No Aware' and 'City In The Dust On My Window'. Highly recommended." --Boomkat (UK)

"...an album that rises beyond the limitations of the form, to create a deeply emotional, meditative, almost mystical place of its own." --Erasing Clouds

"...take the time to concentrate for an hour and you will experience what a guitar gently weeping truly sounds like." --Drowned In Sound (UK)

"7.5/10" and "Album of the Month", Electronic --Onda Rock (Italy)

"From ambient lullabies to panoramic anthems this album rings with music from out of the American Elsewhere...The occasional appearance of a string section and cello adds to this mystique. Vast, delicate and majestic...This kind of music deepens us, extending our feelings through its poetic vision." --Star's End

"5+/5: If you have ever enjoyed enjoyed laying in the grass watching the clouds drift by overhead on a perfect spring day, you may begin to have some idea of the sound of this album...Wonderful hypnotic stuff from a duo whose music is a uniquely different flavor..." --Baby Sue

"5/5...their music is a true gift...This CD shows us yet another side of this fascinating band; the side that sheds off the layers insulating themselves to the listening public, offering a vulnerable and personal recording that will draw out of listeners the same emotional experience..." --Somewhere Cold

"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." --Amelia Raitt, Emusic

"Sinewy and airy, the Nashville duo have constructed a masterful ambient album chock full of tunes that are so well connected they feel like strong yet slacked strings between tin cans. Full of space to move around in but also varied between shaking guitar sheets and gentle keyboard shifts, their audio contribution to the latest Riceboy Sleeps (aka Jonsi from Sigur Ros) art project is a piece of art unto itself." --NowLikePhotographs (Radio Show)

"Hammock never fails to dissolve the illusion of time and space, break down the matrix of structured rules, and unplug from the looping pattern of being..." --Headphone Review

"Ultimately, though, it's with great honor that I say that Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow is one of the best albums of 2008. A more beautiful album, I have yet to hear..." --Press Play, Record

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This product was added to our catalog on Monday 14 April, 2008.
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