“During the 6 years that Yellowcard was apart, I was constantly searching for ways to continue my career as a musician and producer, I had the idea to basically do Yellowcard covers featuring friends and artists I’ve had the pleasure of knowing throughout my career,” explains Yellowcard vocalist/guitarist Ryan Key about ‘A Hopeful Sign,’ their new collaboration album with the Nashville-based post-rock duo Hammock which is out today February 9th, 2024 via Equal Vision. The new album revisits some of the alt-rock band’s most unforgettable songs and revamps them with an ambient and delicate feel. In tandem with the album release today the band shared the focus track ‘Only One’ which takes one of the band’s most iconic sentimental pop-punk anthems and transforms it into a contemplative piano-led ballad.
“‘Only One’ has always fascinated me because at its core it’s actually a song about a painful ending to a relationship, yet it’s such a popular song in a setting like a wedding or anniversary. Obviously, that is due to the nature of the chorus lyrics. What I love about the Hammock reimagining is that it really brings out the true meaning of the song by making it more,” says Ryan Key.
Wanting to work with artists they are inspired by, this collaboration came to them seamlessly. “Yellowcard is in a new place where we are collaborating with other artists more than ever before,” says Key about this new musical relationship. The first artist to finish a collaboration was Hammock with their reworked version of ‘Empty Street’.” This then began their collaborative spark to piece together ‘A Hopeful Sign’.