HAMMOCK
The Second Coming Was A Moonrise (Hammock Music)
Though resonant with the shoegaze sounds of Slowdive and LSD And The Search For God’s respective self-titled albums, and boasting features from the Flaming Lips, The Second Coming Was A Moonrise stands completely in its own realm. The first album to be released on their own label, it marks Nashville two-piece Hammock’s greatest venture to date.
Pretentiously titled? By no means – the album is sufficiently large and monumental to justify it. Hammock go beyond creating mere soundscapes, offering what feels like a real landscape to lose yourself within. Distorted droning dissolves into echoes and silences, inviting the listener on a meditative, trance-like journey.
The Second Coming… doesn’t demand your attention but takes a hold of it as you subconsciously slip into the recesses of its reverbed chords. It’s explorative, intimate, and expansive all at once, with the closer All The Pain You Can’t Explain climactically and cinematically encapsulating all the emotional intensity that the album at large subtly sustains.
words MENNA WILSON
