Hiss Golden Messenger – Terms of Surrender [LP]

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: Its always on the tip of your tongue, but hard to speak. Songwriter and bandleader M.C. Taylors music is at once familiar, yet impossible to categorize: Elements from the American songbookthe steady, churning acoustic guitar and mandolin, the gospel emotion, the eerie steel guitar tracings, the bobbing and weaving organ and electric pianoprovide the bedrock for Taylors existential ruminations about parenthood, joy, hope, and lonelinessour delicate, tightrope balance of dark and lightthat offer fully engaged contemporary commentary on the present. And then theres an indescribable spirit and movement: Hiss Golden Messengers music grooves. Theres nothing else quite like it.

Tracklist:

1. I Need a Teacher
2. Bright Direction (Youre a Darkstar Now)
3. My WIng
4. Old Enough to Wonder Why (East SideWest Side)
5. Cats Eye Blue
6. Happy Birthday, Baby
7. Down at the Uptown
8. Katy (You Dont Have to Be Good Yet)
9. Whip
10. Terms of Surrender

UPC: 673855067513
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 9.20.19
Format: Vinyl