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Yellowcard Collaborates With Ambient Duo Hammock For New Album 'A Hopeful Sign' + Release Reimagined 'Ocean Avenue'

Sean Friswell
Jan 12, 2024
1 min read

“For each of these songs, I just sent over a lead vocal and a piano and Hammock reinvented these songs in way that only they could do,”

explains Yellowcard vocalist/guitarist Ryan Key about 'A Hopeful Sign', the new collaboration with the Nashville-based post-rock duo.

Set for release on February 9, 2024 via Equal Vision, the new album revisits some of the alt-rock band’s most memorable tracks and reimagines them in a neo-classical and ambient space, deconstructing the songs and rebuilding them as a whole new aural experience. The first single from the album, “Ocean Avenue,” takes the band’s signature hit and metamorphosizing the song from a pop-punk anthem to a contemplative and delicate piano-led ballad.

“Yellowcard is in a new place where we are collaborating with other artists more than ever before,”

says Key about this new musical partnership.

“I have found Hammock in my top three most played artists every year for nearly a decade now. Hammock are one of the defining and most pioneering artists in the post rock and ambient space. We have taken so much inspiration from their work over the years so first becoming friends, and then unexpectedly getting to work together on new music were dreams come true.”