The rare jewels we find when we aren't even searching. Funny how it is those jewels we end up holding on to for the rest of our lives. This album is magnificent.
Candice, I literally think this album is part of me now. I've listened to it so often when thinking about happiness, friends, life, pain, and the afterlife. It is the most important album. It is the music, that music listens to when it reflects on its own meaning. It is transcendent, at least to me...
I work in a dental office,and since I found you,I put your music everyday at work for our patients,and they are mesmerised… it gives them peace and forget about pais or dentist phobias… thank you for these masterpieces and thank you for existing! Your music is literally soul cleansing…❤❤❤
This has been my first time listening to Hammock. It's as if Explosions in The Sky and Sigur Ros were two people that accidentally bumped into each other while walking under the most beautiful sunset you've ever seen and that moment created another universe that consisted of the most heart warming qualities from each. Truly heart touching music.
1. Now And Not Yet 0:00 2. Mysterium 6:18 3. When The Body Breaks 13:30 4. Things Of Beauty Burn 17:53 5. I Would Give My Breath Away 22:34 6. Remember Our Bewildered 25:45 7. Dust Swirling Into Your Shape 31:49 8. Numinous 35:37 9. For My Sister 40:57 10. Elegy 47:22 11. This Is Not Enough (Epilogue) 52:30
Life, people. It sometimes makes you crash, fall down so deep that you would want nothing but to fall deeper into that abyss. To end all of the torment of what it means to love someone that does not love you, to escape from the melancholic void that is grief for those who have left this world or the feeling that everything seems meaningless. But then, one day - you're getting a present from someone in your family. You start crying and hugging that loved one for showing how much they mean to you, and you feel alive again. And a few times after that - you're with your friends playing video games in your small apartment, everyone's snacking, laughing and whenever someone wins - they jump and pump their fists in pure joy. and you feel alive again. You receive a text a few days later from someone that cares about you and it makes your entire day. You think about that text message deeply and accept wholeheartedly the description of your beautiful sides that your loved one sent, from it, you let your confidence grow. and you feel alive again. One can fall deep into the abyss, but never so far that you can grow wings and ascend back to a beautiful life with swirling stars, blooming fields, sunsets and love. Hammock gave me those wings and keeps allowing me to soar in the sky that we call life. Words cannot describe how grateful I am for their existence. If it weren't so, I would not be here in this moment to write this youtube comment. Thank you, Andrew & Thank you, Marc. /Tristan Jakobsen, Sweden.
Tristan, you described sorrow and joy with examples of people suffering and feeling joy too. Your comment is sensitve and intelligent, and it expresses some of the peace and beauty in Hammock's music. Congratulations.
Dear Tristan, I just discovered Hammock and it is also magic for me. Your comment touched me as I am currently experiencing a complicated situation. Thank you for the beautiful words, thank you for giving hope.
And sometimes, just when you've lost all faith in your own species, walked too far alone down too many crooked paths thru too many cold starless nights, and had the abyss stare too deeply into you... you unexpectedly read a comment like this, that blows over you like a midsummer wind, lifts the blanket-heavy shroud of fog, and just for a moment you look up and see the endless sky lit by the entire dancing Milky Way, and look to your sides and see that you are not alone, fellow travelers are closer than you think... and for that moment, the dissonance becomes resonance, and you smile, and shout across an entire ocean, "HELLO! AND THANK YOU!" -C from America
It is at this moment that I realized I haven't really moved on. Maybe I will never do. Listening to this gave me a bittersweet feeling. Made me remember that special person I'd like to share this moment with but unfortunately she's out of reach. This music connects you with your inner core. Where unresolved conflicts reside. Giving you a chance to face them and resolve accordingly. Giving you a chance to heal. POWERFUL!
Hammock is so underrated, they deserve way more attention for what they do. Hammock, please never stop being Hammock. Thank you and the band for sharing true emotional music with us. Sincerely, -Just a random guy, who's life was saved by this band's music years ago during severe depression. (sorry about the last part)
Amen , same here. I still want to end it. Every fucking day. If it wasn't for music like hammock and plini and David maxim mimic also Jakub zytecki.. I dont think I'd be breathing........
Planting seeds, watching them germinate and seeing nature's miracle turning it all in to food, that is how I cured my depression. Appreciate nature and it will nurture your soul, and stomach.
So beautiful. Today marks two years since my grandma passed away. Hammock brings me so much comfort. Feels like shes next to me when ever I listen to them
Introspection is an imploding treasure quest. You are water and energy waves. There are rich, eerie depths inside of you left for only you and you to traverse. No external entity should deprive you from accessing yourself. And as you move, may you shed light upon those close to you, I wish you grow, build together, empires! out of shards and breaking bones. Your eyes may look hard and tired with distaste, but you are in fact ecstatic by nature. A universe. It holds true. Everything is permitted and growth is personal. :) Love from Pune, India. 🇮🇳
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
@David Montelongo the anguish of knowing our hearts will beat a selected number of times, and in this knowing every moment becomes limitless, and beautifully infinite. Catch the rising light for soon we will all be passing through the veil of Gods love.....
around the 30minute mark I remembered forgotten childhood memories and they reminded me of those strong feelings of pure excitement. if that doesnt make this song a 10/10 then idk what does.
"It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits. A world lives within you. No one else can bring you news of this inner world. Through our voices, we bring out sound from the mountain beneath our soul. Human presence is a creative and turbulent sacrament, a visible sign of invisible grace. Nowhere is there such intimate and frightening access to the mysterium. Friendship is the sweet grace that liberates us to approach, recognize, and inhabit this adventure.” -John O’Donohue
Listening to this Album to me feels like an old friend coming to visit you, throwing a warm, heavy blanket of bitter-sweet melancholy on you. Thank you, Hammock!
Hammock: you can enlight my life. Thank you for the most deep emotional healing music ever. I just love your work. You are the best!!!! Just keep it, please!!
One wonderfully rainy day, chilly, inspiring kind of Georgia day and I was watching/listening to This Will Destroy You, Mono, Mogwai, late period The Church and Steve Kilby solo confections, Flying Saucer Attack, Sigur Ros, Echo and the Bunnymen (1 to 4 with live EP albums), Explosions in the Sky (love this group), Van Morrison “Hymns to the Silence” and “Astral Weeks” sound, and basically just a non melancholy post rock post punk post bombast scene, but quietly creative and contemplative day that turned into an all night exploration of bands that were new to me except Mogwai and the The Church as group and their solo albums. Hammock was a revelation. This experience became something of a perfect day with Hammock becoming a centerpiece to many favorites collections for study/writing/driving/talking/peaceful when necessary times. Brilliant. Hammock is nothing short of brilliant and pulsing with a musical life whose source is contemplation. This comment section is at 209 comments as of 2.14.21 and the people here are fans as well which makes this like a living room or parlor for friends gathered in conversation, reflection and peaceful merriment. I miss those nights of friends gathered and hanging out with music that is the moment. There are many moments in life with music being a part of the conversation as if the band members were there with us all. Hammock has that sense. Explosions in the Sky has that particular talent. This album of Mysterium is what meditation feels. Yeah, feels. Hammock as leaders in a genre is a band of hopes and wishes where, again with contemplation and meditation, is not only a backdrop and a canvas, they are a group I fell in love with from the first, and hove not stopped loving them with my being here only 4 years as a fan. I love being a music fan.
Here am I with a broken heart, feeling insufficient and falling apart... my ex just broke with me, and this is all i needed to listen for calm my soul... thank you hammock, please... never stop being hammock🍃
Questo album è di una immensa bellezza, di una grandezza assoluta, profondo, devastante, struggente, malinconico...un sublime capolavoro!!! Grazie x questa meravigliosa gemma...grazie Hammock!!! Grandissimi!!! ♥️ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ EnzoItaly
Your music is so hauntingly beautiful, moving, and utterly bewitchingly mesmerizing that words completely escape my verbal ability to express and/or adequately articulate or define the level of its perfection and the emotional/spiritual depths to which it affects me. And I'm referring to every single piece of your music that I've heard and experienced, thus far. Your musical gifts and talents are genuinely nothing short of miraculous, I truly mean that. Just....WOW!!!!
The first track has to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard in my life. Hammock, you've been instrumental in helping me grow in my faith in God, and simply overall happiness of life in these times. Thank you. Just thank you.
That first instrumental was so heavenly. Awesome work. If I could put that music into an expression, it would be (The journey is over now. We finally made it to the other side.)
Hammock represents the connection between emotions and music. There is so much affecting music, but listening to this album, it just touches a special place in all of our hearts, minds, souls. I was laying on my basement floor, half drunk after the UFC fights, thinking and missing my Uncle Roddy. He was in his 40's, life of the party, and died in a fire. I miss him, along with so many others, everyday. Life it up. Life is impossible to predict. Love. Laugh. Live. Everyday. Talking things and people for granted is the most detrimental thing a human can do to itself. Use music. To the fullest. 🤘🏻
Blissful mesmerizing serenity in form of beautiful magical sounds and melodies. Sounds like heaven. Feels like great big flame of love and life in your chest. It's medicine for your heart and therapy for your soul. Such beauty, grace and emotion in this music. It's unbeliable how incredible and beautiful something can sound. I'm in awe, speechless, covered in goosebumps trying not to cry.
This is the best album for falling alseep, but I always find myself trying to stay awake just to listen to I would give my breath away. That song is so beautiful
this album so eloquently describes how my broken hearted empath spirit feels I wish everyone in the world could see the aftermath of what's coming toward us Maybe we would stand a chance of stopping it before it's too late but I fear we've already passed beyond critical mass
I feel so connected to this music. For so long I've been looking for music like this. As I listen to this, I am crying my eyes out and feel so many emotions going through me at once. It's so hard for me to describe. This music is what I long for to hear and the kind of music that sticks with me for years to come. This is the kind of music I will share with my family and friends. Hammock, thank you so much for making this beautiful music! I got through my depression because of this. Thank you!
I listen to this Album when it feels like all the anxiety, fear and frustration in life is going to overwhelm me. It holds my hand, strokes my brow, and it all seems to melt away...
Niemals ahnte ich, welches Universum sich beim Hören dieser Klänge in meinem Verstand offenbart. Meine Ohren erfahren soviel Geborgenheit und für diesen kurzen Moment ist es mir erlaubt zu vergessen, wie hoffnungslos dieses neue Jahrzehnt gestartet ist. Eure Musik schenkt mir Zuversicht. Danke! Never did I suspect which universe reveals itself in my mind when I hear these sounds. My ears experience so much security and for this brief moment I am allowed to forget how hopelessly this new decade has started. Your music gives me confidence. Thanks!
Silencia was my 2020 meditation medicine, Mysterium is my 2022 meditation companion Hammock you are with me in all circumstances forever and always, love ❤️
Still coming back to this over and over again. Sometimes I feel like I really need to listen to this album to be able to move on, start over, find peace, find motivation, or just for background while I'm working. Fills me with good energy. Thank you, Hammock.
This music evokes and stirs up emotions from deep within the heart. It brings tears to the eyes. It coalesces visions in the mind's eye. It moves the soul.
I love that these are instrumentals. you've shown us you don't need words to describe how we feel, but just the raw emotion. there are times that I wish I could go back in time and say I love you to someone, or say sorry, or say I will miss them. I don't just want to say it, I want to show it.
Absolutely and utterly beautiful. This came on as I was trying to work. How have I not hear it yet!? I've just realised that I've been sat here for the past 20 minutes deeply absorbed in this music. Im giving up on work for there day, this is far more important! Thankyou Hammock.
This music is a Rorschach of the soul. You hear in it whatever you are experiencing right now, but not the speed, the rage, the movement and the cacophony. This let's you think about what you are. Let the just be just, let the unjust be unjust still...
