Hiss Golden Messenger

Hiss Golden Messenger - Jump For Joy

Released 25th August 2023 It’s spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and ...

Released 25th August 2023 It’s spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and singer M.C. Taylor leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger is feeling alive. Joyful. Eternal, he might say. For the Grammy-nominated musician, whose albums have traced an internal path through adulthood, fatherhood, spirituality, and depression for well over a decade, this is something new. “The tunes on Jump for Joy were composed in free moments throughout 2022, a year during which Hiss was on t...

Hiss Golden Messenger - Quietly Blowing It

Released 25th June 2021. “I went looking for peace,” says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden M...

Released 25th June 2021. “I went looking for peace,” says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger about his new album Quietly Blowing It, out March 26, 2021, on Merge Records. “It’s not exactly a record about the state of the world—or my world—in 2020, but more a retrospective of the past five years of my life, painted in sort of impressionistic hues. Maybe I had the presence of mind when I was writing Quietly Blowing It to know that this was the time to go as deep as I needed to in o...