Flying Nun Records Music News — Hamerkop

Hamerkop is a pair of Baltimore-based sound nerds: Annabel Alpers, the composer, singer and instrumentalist formerly of New Zealand’s Bachelorette, and Adam Cooke, a Baltimorean drummer/audio engineer with credits that include Beach House, Wye Oak and Future Islands. Together, they have created a song-cycle that contrasts the often mundane (yet often satisfying) everyday world with that of the idealised, longed for fantasy, to find the spaces in between these things, the place where we all feel good about our existence.We're proud to be teaming up with Drag City to release Hamerkop's debut album 'Remote' out physically in NZ/AU now. Hamerkop’s debut, Remote, started as an exploration of the sonic beauty in Alpers’ collection of field recordings from her homeland and travels...