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MAYBE THEY WILL SING FOR US TOMORROW is a studio recreation from the first live performance Hammock ever performed. The band was asked to perform live at an art exhibition in Hot Springs, Arkansas in August 2007.
The band striped down their sound to the main essential ingredients that Marc
Byrd and Andrew Thompson could perform live together. Usually Hammock's soundscape is massive overcast sky of guitars, voices, cellos and even some percussive elements. This represents a new
exploration forced out of the necessity of two guys playing instruments live in front of people.
From the first guitar note in "Gold Star Mothers" this is unmistakably Hammock. Guitar probes forward into the ambient landscape the band painstakingly paints. The scale is grand with lots of room for the listener to breathe.
"City on the Dust in My Window" renders beauty with minimal notes and instrumentation. There are multiple rhythmic lines that work together in unison to experience seven-minutes of audio bliss.
The third track "This Kind of Life Keeps Breaking Your Heart" is lead by a guitar that sustains what seems forever.
I like the short bursts of guitar in "Mono No Aware." This approach is really different then the guitars that hold and sustain. The background is still huge with ambience but the quick glances of guitar feel almost like representation of today's technology driven world.
The gentleness of "Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow" put me at peace. When listening to this sixth track it's as though nothing in the world could bother me.
"Elm" had me swaying with the ambient breeze Hammock creates. The thing I have to say about Hammock is that the more you listen to their music, the more their grooves will sink into you and each time you hear the music again it will play out deep within your soul. Trust me.
A bleaker more dark picture is painted in the first half of "Razorback Drug Town."
"Eighty-Four Thousand Hymns" has the feel of being out in nature. I could imagine myself walking into the woods and seeing the beautiful things mother nature created.
The longest track on the album, "We will Say Goodbye to Everyone" runs almost eight-minutes. The guys really know how to communicate this and the way in which
they do, you don't want it to end.
This is another chapter in the magnificent audio book that Hammock continues to write with grace, heart and passion.
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