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Departure Songs
Electronic · 2012 · 19 tracks · 1h 50m

Departure Songs

Hammock

Two hours of massive, reverb-drenched guitar swells and angelic vocals. A cinematic double album exploring the heavy intersection of love, loss, and presence.

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It's like being hugged by a giant, shimmering cloud while you cry your eyes out.

A monumental and cinematic exploration of grief that finds a strange, soaring beauty in the act of letting go.

Departure Songs · vs · Hammock
Cathartic+2.2σ

Cathartic saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 19 Tracks · 1h 50m
01
Cold Front
6:59
02
Ten Thousand Years Won’t Save Your Life
6:28
03
Together Alone
7:08
04
Artificial Paradises
5:20
05
(Tonight) We Burn Like Stars That Never Die
6:28
06
Pathos
6:47
07
Awakened, He Heard Only Silence
3:03
08
Words You Said… I’ll Never Forget You Now
6:35
09
Tape Recorder
6:07
10
Frailty (For the Dearly Departed)
6:53
11
Dark Circles
6:14
12
(Let’s Kiss) While All the Stars Are Falling Down
6:52
13
All Is Dream and Everything Is Real
6:00
14
Mute Angels
4:58
15
Hiding but Nobody Missed You
5:06
16
We Could Die Chasing This Feeling
6:24
17
Glossolalia
2:11
18
(Leaving) The House Where We Grew Up
6:00
19
Tornado Warning
4:50
Moments Worth Waiting For
The massive, wall-of-sound guitar swell that peaks at the four-minute mark of track 2, feeling like a physical wave of relief.
The transition into track 7 where the dense instrumentation suddenly evaporates into a haunting, isolated silence.
The moment the intelligible lyrics emerge from the reverb wash in track 10, turning an abstract mood into a piercingly personal confession.
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