Hiss Golden Messenger – Terms Of Surrender (CD)
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M.C. Taylor wrote much of *Terms of Surrender* during a period of real personal and political turbulence, and that weight comes through without ever tipping into despair. The Durham scene that shaped Hiss Golden Messenger has always drawn from the same deep well as the best Southern soul and country music, and here Taylor and his collaborators find something close to hard-won grace.
4-panel gatefold wallet w/ matte coating & 16-page booklet
Describing the Durham-basedHiss Golden Messengeris like trying to grasp a forgotten word: It’s always on the tip of your tongue, but hard to speak. Songwriter and bandleader M.C. Taylor’s music is at once familiar, yet impossible to categorize: Elements from the American songbook—the steady, churning acoustic guitar and mandolin, the gospel emotion, the eerie steel guitar tracings, the bobbing and weaving organ and electric piano—provide the bedrock for Taylor’s existential ruminations about parenthood, joy, hope, and loneliness—our delicate, tightrope balance of dark and light—that offer fully engaged contemporary commentary on the present. And then there’s an indescribable spirit and movement: Hiss Golden Messenger’s music grooves. There’s nothing else quite like it.
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UPC: 673855067520
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 9.20.19
Format: CD