{"title":"Hammock Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHammock Music is a label imprint based in Nashville, Tennessee. Established in 2004, they have become a prominent force in the music industry. With their unique sound and artistic vision, Hammock Music has captured the hearts of listeners worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an independent label, Hammock Music prides itself on discovering and nurturing talented artists. Their roster includes a diverse range of musicians who push boundaries and create captivating music across various genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDistributed by Redeye Worldwide, Hammock Music ensures that their releases reach a global audience. With their commitment to quality and innovation, this label continues to make waves in the ever-evolving music landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"love-in-the-void-2","title":"Love in the Void","description":"\u003cp\u003eBreaking from the strange monotony and abnormal norms that took hold during two years of pandemic life, Hammock returns with\u003ci\u003e Love in the Void\u003c\/i\u003e, an album that looks to the future, seizes the present, and unabashedly relishes the experiences and bonds that bring meaning to our days. Known for crafting orchestral works of stirring cinematic ambience, on Love in the Void the Nashville-based duo of Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson bring guitar-forward, heart-pounding urgency to songs that shout through and shatter the static of complacency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince forming as Hammock in 2003, Byrd and Thompson have released 14 critically-acclaimed albums, and are renowned for their unique talent for bringing inexpressible emotion to life. The Covid-19 pandemic followed closely after one of Hammock’s career-defining works, the Mysterium, Universalis, and Silencia trilogy that chronicled the incomprehensible loss of Byrd’s 20-year old nephew. At their homes and apart, Byrd and Thompson then recorded Elsewhere, an album of shimmering ambience that channeled alienated longing and displacement into avenues that gave way to worlds and possibilities yet realized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShaken awake and needing to break free of frustrations and longings, Love in the Void pulses with an unbridled spirit for action and experience and a burning desire for connection. Across songs that hammer home the keenly felt emotions of life’s highs and lows, Byrd and Thompson crest soaring crescendos awash in reverb and delve to keenly felt moments of quiet introspection, with unflinching lyrics on tracks like “Undoing” and “Denial of Endings’’ that weigh choices made and circumstances that can’t be changed. Lush and dramatic string orchestration from Matt Kidd (Slow Meadow) and emphatic drumming from Jake Finch heighten the stakes in play, and Christine Byrd’s (Lumenette) ethereal vocals leave mysteries lingering in the haze. \u003ci\u003eLove in the Void\u003c\/i\u003e is Hammock’s loudest album to date, embracing daring and vulnerability with palpable vitality at its core, and moving into an unknown future without fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky, Bark Psychosis, Caspian, Mogwai, This Will Destroy You.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hammock Music","offers":[{"title":"Red | LP","offer_id":50449414914379,"sku":"2004867","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50449414619467,"sku":"2004866","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Love_in_the_Void_5f3b6846_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727102821"},{"product_id":"all-around-my-head","title":"All Around My Head","description":"\u003cp\u003eRadiant with cool and stylish energy but with love and longing at its heart, Lumenette’s debut album all around my head crosses between the realms of memory and dreams, morphing the past into alternate realities where new perspectives and divergent storylines emerge. From Nashville-based composer and singer Christine Byrd, whose breathy vocals linger over a mix of pop-forward instrumentation, driving beats, and ethereal washy ambiance, \u003ci\u003eAll Around My Head\u003c\/i\u003e is an immersive journey through life’s trials and surreal blisses that will echo long after its final notes fade to silence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarnessing the cinematic beauty of bands like This Mortal Coil and the blurred heartache of shoegaze greats like Slowdive, Byrd constructs songs coursing with mystery. From the first stirrings of album opener “Alaska,” which shimmers to life from stillness, Byrd sets the stage for a record that exhibits both an uncommonly sharp perception of others and unflinchingly honest introspection. In scars left from mistakes, wounds and trauma, Byrd finds beauty and evidence of lives lived, seeing supposed flaws as marks of humanity worthy of understanding and celebration. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcceptance is liberating, opening up avenues to realise vivid waking dreams of what could be on songs such as “2000 Feet” and “Mayflies,” and giving way to the thrill of shared secrets and adventure on “There To Here” and “Once More.” A classically trained singer, Byrd has worked as a special needs educator for the past sixteen years and began writing music for Lumenette driven by a need to bring her poetry, full of wonder, love, angst, and fears, to life. On \u003ci\u003eAll Around My Head\u003c\/i\u003e, Byrd faces down those fears, acknowledging the darkness that agitates the corners of the mind and shedding light into it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a remarkable sense for crafting hooks that grip the ears and the heart, Lumenette offers emotionally complex and catchy songs that capture the human experience as the mysterious, difficult, and awe-inspiring thing that it is. 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The title track of 'By the Ash Tree' is one of Slow Meadow's most popular and enduring compositions. 'Upstream Dream' was composed around the time of 2019's Happy Occident. Soft electronics, bearing otherworldly tones and, at times, a sense of playful mischief, subtly shift expectations and bring discovery and wonder at every turn. It bookends a period of creative output that introduced Kidd's vision of calming and meditative ambient music. With a foundation of piano, string orchestration, and an ever-evolving electronic palette, Slow Meadow traverses the borders of neoclassical and minimalist electronics and delivers a deeply personal and transportive experience that speaks directly to the ebbs and flows and mundanity and marvels of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hammock Music","offers":[{"title":"Grey LP","offer_id":50531384557899,"sku":"2213788","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Slow_Meadow_-_By_the_Ash_Tree........._3e7cf845_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728106547"},{"product_id":"from-the-void-km","title":"From the Void","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince forming as Hammock in 2003, Byrd and Thompson have released 12 critically-acclaimed albums and are renowned for their unique talent for bringing inexpressible emotion to life. From the Void is an extension of the band's genre-defying 2023 album Love in the Void. Hammock's Marc Byrd explains: \"There are four songs we were considering for Love in the Void that weren't fully fleshed out. Listening to them again, we decided they deserved to be brought to life because of how they made us feel. In addition, we decided to create four new pieces inspired by LITV. 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