□ Hammock / "Universalis"
>> https://www.hammockmusic.com/universalis
Release Date; 07/Dec/2018
Label; Blue Raft Music (BMI) / Celestial Sphere (ASCAP)
>> tracklisting.
01. Mouth to Dust... Waiting
02. Scattering Light
03. Universalis
04. Cliffside
05. Always Before Your Eyes
06. We Are More Than We Are
07. Tether of Yearning
08. Clothed with Sky
09. Thirst
10. We Watched You Disappear
11. Tremendum
Produced by Marc Byrd & Andrew Thompson
All songs written by Marc Byrd & Andrew Thompson
Art Direction by The Fuel And Lumber Company
Drawings by Pete Schulte
Layout by Ben Walker
Artwork photographed by Jonathan Purvis
Angelic vocals by Christine Glass Byrd
Additional keys on tracks 4 & 8 by Matt Kidd
Additional editing on tracks 2, 4 & 6 by Matt Kidd
Drums and percussion on tracks 2, 4, 6 and 9 by Ken Lewis
Engineered by Billy Whittington in Nashville, TN
Nashville’s Hammock follows up 2017’s critically-acclaimed Mysterium with Universalis, the second installment of a planned three-album series. While Mysterium took listeners down a horizontal path that explored themes of death and grief, Universalis begins a vertical, upward movement back toward the light.
At times, Universalis calls back to Hammock’s 2006 album Raising Your Voice… Trying to Stop an Echo, while also retaining Mysterium’s deep ambient, neoclassical style. The band also finds itself rediscovering some of its earliest influences, including Low and Red House Painters. With Universalis, Hammock invites listeners to lose themselves within its layers of sound, while also embracing the beauty in its raw openness and silence.
Nashvilleのシューゲイザー/アンビエントデュオの3部作アルバム構想の第2部。
初期のバンドサウンドに立ち返った、前向きで透明感のある作風。
彼らの音楽は、眼前の障壁を全て取り去り、
何処までも遠く、過去も未来も見渡せる地平に立たせてくれる。
