"If you have any kind of even passing affinity for atmospheric music with an uncanny ability to stimulate any of your five senses, hear this." –Pitchfork

Discography : 

Kenotic (2005) : Hammock Music 
Stranded Under Endless Sky EP (2005) : Hammock Music  
The Sleepover Series, Vol. 1 (2006) : Hammock Music
Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo (2006) : Hammock Music
Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow (2008) : Hammock Music
Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts (2010) : Hammock Music 
Outtakes : Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts (2010): Hammock Music
North West East South EP (2010) : Hammock Music  
Longest Year EP (2010) : Hammock Music  
Asleep in the Downlights EP (2011) : Hammock Music 

Other Projects : 

For Nihon : Charity album to benefit victims of the devastating earthquake and tsunami through the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund set up by New York's Japan Society. Released April 2011. 
Steve Kilbey - Hammock - Tim Powles : "No Agenda" featuring Steve Kilbey and "Verse for Forgiveness" featuring Tim Powles of The Church  
Remix of "The Obeisant Vine" for inclusion on a Helios remix album to be released in 2011. 
Matthew Ryan & Hammock : Like New Year's Day (single with alternate mixes released 1/1/11)
BT Featuring Jes : Every Other Way (Remix) 
Amman Josh Featuring Hammock (Places album) 
Never Lose that Feeling (cover of Catherine Wheel's Black Metallic) 

Licensing (partial list) : 

Californication, Showtime (Season 3 2010, Season 4 2011) 
The Gulf Project Narrated by Robert Redford, Discovery Channel (2011)
Dirty Sexy Money, ABC (2008) 
Winter Olympic Games, NBC (2006)
The Human Experience (2006 and 2010, Feature Film) 
Nike, Kobe Bryant Documentary (2006)  

Hammock Music Label is distributed by : 

Redeye and Darla (US)
Shellshock and Southern SRD (UK)
Cargo (Europe) 
Media Factory and Linus Records (Japan) 
Collapsar (China) 

Biography :

Hammock is Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson. The duo debuted Hammock in early 2005 with the acclaimed album Kenotic, which introduced audiences to their densely textured aesthetic and shimmering guitar-driven compositions. Although occasionally laced with haunting vocals, a majority of Hammock's music is ambient instrumental -- their sound is “sleepier” than the often-brash crescendos of many of their post-rocker cousins, drawing from the ethereal minimalism of Stars of the Lid and reminiscent of 80's Brian Eno and Nick McCabe of the band The Verve.

Although hailed as a classic in the Shoegaze genre, Kenotic revealed a band that were inspired by, and fluent in, many different musical styles, from Electronic, Ambient, Minimalist to Post-rock. Hammock continued to expand on their unique amalgam of these sounds on their next release, the July 2005 EP Stranded Under Endless Sky. What followed eight months later was somewhat of a stylistic turn for the band, the heavily-conceptual longform drone-influenced album The Sleepover Series, Vol. 1. November 2006 saw the release of the band's sophomore LP, Raising Your Voice…Trying to Stop an Echo, an album frequently hailed for its canny fusion of melodic accessibility and intrepid experimentalism.  

In Fall 2007, Hammock was invited by Jonsi Birgisson (Sigur Ros) and Alex Somers (Parachutes) to perform at the overseas debut of their art collaboration, Riceboy Sleeps. This created confluence of firsts for all four artists, as it was to be Hammock's first-ever live show. Byrd and Thompson wrote new music especially for the occasion, and these songs would ultimately become Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow, a "studio performance" album of the music they played at the Riceboy Sleeps premiere. Birgisson and Somers as Riceboy Sleeps created the artwork for the album.      

Chasing After Shadows…Living with the Ghosts followed in May 2010. Darker and more massive sonically than Hammock's previous releases, the album features the duo's first usage of a horn section, string quartet, and live drums. The album was mixed by Tim Powles of The Church, who along with his band mate Steve Kilbey, wrote lyrics and performed vocals on two songs reserved for a special release in 2011.  David Altobelli's influential video for “Breathturn” was released online in late March 2010 and was screened publically for the first time at the Los Angeles Film Festival. On December 14, the duo released the EP Longest Year, a beat-less and wordless "mini-album" held for release until the dead of winter and whose title references the band's difficult 2010 (which included the near-destruction of Byrd's home by an epic 100-year flood in Nashville).