The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd feature on new Hammock album, The Second Coming Was A Moonrise

The Second Coming Was A Moonrise arrives two decades into the creative collaboration between Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson, following their 2025 album Nevertheless. “The Unsetting Sun” and “Chemicals Make You Small” arrive as the first previews of the new record, with the latter featuring vocals from Coyne and keys from Drozd — who recently announced his departure from The Flaming Lips.

The Second Coming Was A Moonrise, self-produced by Hammock and mixed by Emery Dobyns, features ten tracks which coast across ambient, post-rock, shoegaze, and neoclassical sounds. In addition to Coyne and Drozd, it features contributions from Christine Byrd (Lumenette), Matt Kidd (Slow Meadow), Matthew Doty (Deserta), Chad Howat, and Jake Finch.

Byrd describes the album as “a combination of what we’ve done through the years, with maybe a little more solidity”. Discussing the collection of songs further, he adds: “So much is missed and looked over due to the tunnel vision created by politics, social media, algorithms, silos of misinformation, and perpetual distraction. I would hope this could be an album that sounds like sitting on the roof of a car, when being young was serious, and one night was like the end of the world. In a way, it’s the same old Hammock, but new, and maybe even incautious.”

The Second Coming Was A Moonrise artwork

The Second Coming Was A Moonrise tracklist

"Inbreaking"
"We Close Our Eyes So We Can See"
"The Unsetting Sun"
"Like Sinking Stars"
"Sadness"
"The Second Coming Was a Moonrise"
"Chemicals Make You Small (featuring The Flaming Lips)"
"Everything You Love Is Buried in the Ground or Scattered into Space"
"Deconstructing"
"All the Pain You Can’t Explain"