Released October 2, 2012 Asleep in the Downlights EP(2010) Departure Songs(2012) | Length 1:49:50 Release date 2 October 2012 | |
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Departure Songs is the sixth full-length and first double album by American ambient/post-rock band Hammock. It was released on October 2, 2012 by the band's own label, Hammock Music.
Contents
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- We lost the sea departure songs full album
- Reception
- Artwork
- Track listing
- Songs
- References
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Reception
Departure Songs was met with positive critical reception. John Diliberto, the host of Echoes, named Departure Songs the No. 1 album of the year for 2012 in his annual year-end "Top 10 Albums" list. Elizabeth Klisiewicz, writing for The Headphone Commute, stated that "Hammock go massive as they meditate on grand themes of death and loss, their music ever larger, more expansive." Jordan Dowling at Contactmusic.com described the album as "where it all comes together. Every disparate strand and sound conjured over the past eight years is no longer separated by song or by album, but layered on top of each other on a release that encompasses and near enough perfects the depth and breadth of the Nashville duo's back-catalogue." Matt Gilley at Fluid Radio posited that the album is "probably the closest thing to an ambient/post-rock opera anyone has ever written, and if anyone is ever going to write one, it’ll probably be Hammock." Ned Raggett noted in his review for AllMusic that "if Hammock's fifth album is something of an extension and consolidation of their past work... it's also a flat-out triumphant one."
Artwork
The additional artwork featured a theatre, with posters on the windows displaying the words "Chansons de Départ", which is French for "Songs of Departure".
Track listing
All tracks written by Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson.
Songs
1Cold Front6:59
2Ten Thousand Years Won't Save Your Life6:28
3Together Alone7:08