HAMMOK - WHEN DOES THIS PLACE BECOME OUR SCENE LP ***PRE ORDER***

HAMMOK - WHEN DOES THIS PLACE BECOME OUR SCENE LP ***PRE ORDER***

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Run For Cover Records

STREET DATE: MIDDLE JUNE

Hammok from Norway are due to release their second full lenght and first with Sargent House! The band were far from home and yet had finally found where they belonged. Somewhere in the middle of Europe, vocalist/guitarist Tobias Osland began writing a new song, reflecting on the international hardcore communities that had embraced the band with open arms. He and his bandmates - drummer Ferdinand Aasheim and bassist Ole Benjamin Thomassen - were overwhelmed, stepping out from Oslo's small, tight-knit alternative circles and meeting fans across the continent. Osland carried this new song with him on the road, titling it "The Scene" as he sang: "When does a space become a scene, when does this place become our scene." He immediately knew it would become the title of Hammok's new album. When Does This Place Become Our Scene, the trio's sophomore outing and first release for Sargent House, captures three musicians who once felt outside looking in - now stepping fully into their own. Most of the songs arrived fast in an inspired burst, but the recording was laborious, with Osland calling the production efforts "the hardest thing I've done in my life." Armed with a set of impressive demos and tasked with refining and expanding their sound, Hammok tweaked and explored until they arrived at something that held all their impulses at once - volatile, hookdriven, and dense with detail. They pushed their noise-rock, hardcore and metal foundations into broader, more dynamic territory weaving industrial abrasion, hip-hop pulse, synth textures, and progressive turns into classic punk urgency. Lyrically, When Does This Place Become Our Scene grapples with existing in hardcore's lineage and social politics, but also broader paradigms, like coming of age in an era shaped by hyperconnection and digital life. In balancing the polarities of underground intensity and pop sensibility, they arrived at an album equal parts scream-along cathartic and nod-along infectious. " When Does This Place Become Our Scene is an invitation - the sound of a band pouring all of themselves into this new music, promising an audience that this communication, this back and forth, is a worthwhile exchange. Ltd Red Vinyl LP with foldout lyric poster and DL Card, CD digipak. FOR FANS OF: METZ, Title Fight, Turnstile, Converge GENRE/STYLE: Hardcore, Alternative, Metal, Noise Rock. TRACKLISTING: 01. THE SCENE 02. SEMI-AUTOMATIC MACHINES 03. GOONING FOR FREE 04. BLAST OFF (BLAST OFF) BLAST OFF 05. BANG 06. GROUNDBREAKER 07. TAP WATER 08. CND 09. THIRST 10. WHEN THE KIDS ARE TOO OLD TO CAUSE A SCENE 11. CONFIDENCE OF A BEATEN HORSE 12. FOR MY FRIENDS