A beautiful new short film by Eliot Rausch - featuring the track "Borrowing the Past (Hammock Remix)".

Borrowing the Past from Eliot Rausch + Phos Pictures on Vimeo.

Freerunning video from our friend Clinton featuring "I Can Almost See You". 

Marc’s Top 50 of 2011
(sort of: the order is close, but not exact)

 1) A Winged Victory for the Sullen-- A Winged Victory for the Sullen

 2) Twilight Singers--Dynamite Steps

 3) Grouper--A I A : Alien Observer / Dream Loss

 4) Peter Broderick--Music for Confluence

 5) Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante--The North Green Down

 6) Tim Hecker--Ravedeath, 1972

 7) Nils Frahm—Felt

 8) Olafur Arnalds--Living Room Songs

 9) Bon Iver—Bon Iver

10) (these are my favorite 80’s style throwback bands, I went through a phase…)

      John Maus--We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

      Cold Cave--Cherish the Light Years

      The Drums—Portamento

      Cut Copy—Zonoscope

      Craft Spells--Idle Labor

      Melted Toys--Washed and Dried EP

      Minks--By the Dedge

      Teeel—Amulet

11) Johann Johannsson--The Miners Hymns

12) M83--Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

13) Stephen Mathieu--A Static Place

14) Sleepingdog--With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields

15) Exitmusic--From Silence EP

16) Christina Vantzou--No. 1

17) Idaho--You Were a Dick

18) Radiohead--The King of Limbs (live from the basement)

19) Tycho--Dive

20) Sleep ∞ Over--Forever

21) Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason--Solaris

22) Matthew Robert Cooper--Miniatures

23) Juliana Barwick--The Magic Place

24) Simon Scott—Bunny

25) Sigur Ros--Inni

26) Girls--Father, Son and Holy Ghost

27) The Field--Looping State of Mind

28) Tim Hecker--Dropped Pianos

29) Deaf Center--Owl Splinters

30) Fabio Orsi--Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul

31) Bvdub & Ian Hawgood--The Truth Hurts

32) Motion Sickness of Time Travel--Luminaries and Synastry

33) Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer--In a Place of Such Graceful Shapes

34) The War on Drugs--Slave Ambient

35) Marissa Nadler—Marissa Nadler

36) Mint Julep--Save Your Season

37) Kate Bush--50 Words for Snow

38) Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland—The Rustle of Stars

39) Kurt Vile--Smoke Ring for My Halo

40) Rhian Sheehan--Seven Tales of the North Wind

41) Yuck—Yuck

42) Clams Casino--Rainforest EP

43) Chihei Hatakeyama--Mirror

44) Kyle Bobby Dunn--Ways of Meaning

45) Robert Crouch—An Occupied Space

46) Zola Jesus--Conatus

47) Dustin O'Halloran--Lumiere

48) Fennesz--Seven Stars EP

49) Loscil--Coast/Range/Arc

50) Gotye—Making Mirrors

ten things i have learned about the sea from lorenzo fonda on Vimeo.

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  Cover of "Take Care, Take Care, Take Care" by Explosions in the Sky(Explosions in the Sky/Amazon.com)

Hammock has two songs in the upcoming "Stories from the Gulf", a half-hour film produced by NRDC and presented by Robert Redford about Gulf Coast residents living in the aftermath of the oil disaster. Stories from the Gulf is premiering on Discovery Planet Green on April 23rd, 2011.

in the valley of spring,
as a cold spell I float on the wind,
falling damp upon the blossoms
as a drop
in which they decay
as if sunk in a swamp.
I am the Continual-Thought-Of-Dying

Because I cannot walk firmly, I fly
through every sky above secure buildings
and knock down pillars and undermine walls.
Since I cannot sleep at night, I warn
others with the distant roar of the sea.
I pass through the mouth of waterfalls
and let topple from mountains the rumbling boulders.

I am the child of great fear for the world,
who within peace and joy hangs suspended
like the stroke of a bell in the day’s passing
and like the scythe in the ripe pasture.

I am the Continual-Thought-Of-Dying

Ingeborg Bachmann

The bell-rope that gathers God at dawn
Dispatches me as though I dropped down the knell
Of a spent day - to wander the cathedral lawn
From pit to crucifix, feet chill on steps from hell.

Have you not heard, have you not seen that corps
Of shadows in the tower, whose shoulders sway
Antiphonal carillons launched before
The stars are caught and hived in the sun's ray?

The bells, I say, the bells break down their tower;
And swing I know not where. Their tongues engrave
Membrane through marrow, my long-scattered score
Of broken intervals ... And I, their sexton slave!

And so it was I entered the broken world
To trace the visionary company of love, its voice
An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled)
But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

My world I poured. But was it cognate, scored
Of that tribunal monarch of the air
Whose thighs embronzes earth, strikes crystal Word
In wounds pledges once to hope - cleft to despair?

Hart Crane

Not the one who takes up his bed and walks
But the ones who have known him all along
And carry him in—

Their shoulders numb, the ache and stoop deeplocked
In their backs, the stretcher handles
Slippery with sweat. And no let up

Until he’s strapped on tight, made tiltable
And raised to the tiled roof, then lowered for healing.
Be mindful of them as they stand and wait

For the burn of the paid-out ropes to cool,
Their slight light-headedness and incredulity
To pass, those ones who had known him all along.

Seamus Heaney

...that we are men of sun
And men of day and never of pointed light,
Men that repeat antiquest sounds of air
In an accord of repetitions. Yet,
If we repeat, it is because the wind
Encircling us, speaks always with our speech.

-Wallace Stevens

Floating Away In Every Direction

Of course it is strange to inhabit the earth no longer,
To give up customs one barely had time to learn,
Not to see roses and other promising Things
In terms of a human future;no longer to be 
What one was in infinitely anxious hands to leave
Even one's own first name behind, forgetting it
As easily as a child abandons a broken toy.
Strange to no longer desire one's desires. Strange to see meanings that clung together once, 
FLOATING AWAY IN EVERY DIRECTION. And being dead is hard work
And full of retrieval befitting can gradually feel
A trace of eternity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes life seems random; sometimes it seems to have a purpose.  We have been long time fans and listeners of the music of the Church.  Tim Powles mixed our last full length, Chasing After Shadows, Living With the Ghosts.  As a result, we’ve had the opportunity to work with both Steve Kilbey and Tim Powles.  

We released outtakes last year, two of which were labeled "instrumental."  Now, “No Agenda” will feature a lyric and vocal performance from Steve Kilbey, lead singer of the Church and one of our all time favorite voices in rock n’ roll.  “Verse for Forgiveness” will feature a vocal by Tim and a lyric written by both Tim and I.  

We will release the two versions on 7” vinyl.  One will be Steve Kilbey/Hammock and on the other side an instrumental song by us.  The other will be Tim Powles/Hammock and an instrumental track by us.  

There are postcards being passed out at the Church shows this winter with a free 4 song download code that allows you to download 4 songs from our album, Chasing After Shadows, Living With the Ghosts. Their show is going to be amazing so go check it out if you can…  We are super excited!