Nashville's Hammock follows up 2017's critically-acclaimed Mysterium with Universalis, the second installment of a planned three-album series. While Mysterium took listeners down a horizontal path that explored themes of death and grief, Universalis begins a vertical, upward movement back toward the light. At times, Universalis calls back to Hammock's 2006 album Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo, while also retaining Mysterium's deep ambient, neoclassical style. The band also finds itself rediscovering some of it's earliest influences, including Low and Red House Painters. With Universalis, Hammock invites listeners to lose themselves within it's layers of sound, while also embracing the beauty in it's raw openness and silence.