Hiss Golden Messenger – Terms of Surrender (LP Vinyl)
M.C. Taylor has spent years making music that sits comfortably alongside the Grateful Dead's country-gospel excursions and Van Morrison's transcendent soul, but Terms of Surrender finds him writing with unusual directness about family, faith, and what it costs to stay present. Recorded with his tight-knit band, it captures the communal warmth that has made Hiss Golden Messenger a genuine word-of-mouth phenomenon among fans who care about songwriting with real stakes.
Single LP on black vinyl in double gatefold jacket w/ matte coating & printed dust sleeve. Includes coupon for full download
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: 673855067513
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 9.20.19
Format: LP Vinyl