Hammock - The Second Coming Was a Moonrise

1. Inbreaking 04:02
2. We Close Our Eyes So We Can See 05:31
3. The Unsetting Sun 06:54
4. Like Sinking Stars 04:59
5. Sadness 04:45
6. The Second Coming Was a Moonrise 07:22
7. Chemicals Make You Small (featuring The Flaming Lips) 05:45
8. Everything You Love Is Buried in the Ground or Scattered into Space 04:11
9. Deconstructing 03:15
10. All the Pain You Can’t Explain 05:49

The Second Coming Was A Moonrise continues those sensations of exploration, feeling at once like one of their most intimate releases while exploring the rich sense of majesty that they can create in turn. Following soon after their 2025 release Nevertheless, their self-production, in combination once again with mixer Emery Dobyns to accentuate the textured flow of their work, covers ten songs that sound like deep spaceflight in many forms, whether it’s the extended drone rise concluding “The Unsetting Sun” or the vast sensations of “Everything You Love Is Buried In The Ground Or Scattered Into Space.” When asked about this sense of reaching out to the beyond, Byrd discusses the striking origin of the album title, also the name of the album’s longest song and one of its most calmly powerful. One night when younger, he and a friend, while indulging in some LSD, were momentarily affected by a light in the night sky, the fundamentalist Christianity of their upbringing leading them to expect the Rapture at any moment. It was, Byrd quickly realized, a moonrise in the end, but as he notes, the mere fact that they had that as their baseline was grounds for a reflective moment: