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There's a new Hammock album on the way. Not Hammok, the Norwegian post-hardcore band, who also have a new LP in the queue. Hammock, the Nashville-based post-rock duo of Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson, will drop their sophomore full-length The Second Coming Was A Moonrise in May, and they're sharing a pair of tracks today. One of them is a significant milestone in Flaming Lips history.
The two new Hammock songs today are called "Chemicals Make You Small" and "The Unsetting Sun." The former track features Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd, who until recently were bandmates in the Flaming Lips. Drozd, who joined the Lips in 1991 and became arguably the most important member aside from Coyne, recently decided to step back from touring, which led to his ouster from the band entirely. Coyne and Drozd have not agreed about whether he was fired or he quit.
"Chemicals Make You Small," then, may be the last time Coyne and Drozd appear on a track together. It's a rare Hammock track with vocals, encasing Coyne's bleary tenor in harmonies and placing it in a slo-mo electronic rock context that feels a bit like Explosions In The Sky conjuring Yoshimi deep cuts. "The Unsettling Sun," meanwhile, is a dark, aching instrumental.
Hear both tracks below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "Inbreaking"
02 "We Close Our Eyes So We Can See"
03 "The Unsettling Sun"
04 "Like Sinking Stars"
05 "Sadness"
06 "The Second Coming Was A Moonrise"
07 "Chemicals Make You Small" (Feat. The Flaming Lips)
08 "Everything You Love Is Buried In The Ground Or Scattered Into Space"
09 "Deconstructing"
10 "All The Pain You Can't Explain"
The Second Coming Was A Moonrise is out 5/22. Pre-order it here.
Connor Carroll
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