Hammock

Hammock. Nashville duo, Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson, two guitarists who met in the alt-rock band Common Children and have been making ambient post-rock together since 2003. The sound is cathedral-scale: guitars processed past recognition, string arrangements, wordless choirs, very long timescales. 'The Backward Step' is off Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts (2010), the album where they first brought orchestral arrangements into the drone. They wrote roughly fifty candidate tracks and kept only what fit. That same year Byrd's house was nearly destroyed in the Tennessee floods, and that experience shaped the Longest Year EP (December 2010). They've put out records steadily since, including Love in the Void (2023), From the Void (2024) and Nevertheless (2025), though they only rarely play live.

From the notes for Episode 07 · fact-checked Sep 24, 2026.