Taylor is a steadying, comforting presence in a rudderless world, and 90 minutes in his company pass very quickly – even if he only scratches the surface of his voluminous songbook. Hiss Golden Messenger hissgoldenmessenger 4.16K subscribers 31 videos Hallelujah Anyhow is the latest studio album from Hiss Golden Messenger, out September 22 worldwide on Merge. As deep into the inky darkness as his lyrics might delve, his luminous melodies are redemptive, every warmly familiar strum a healing salve for the abrasions his introspection risks. Played solo and acoustic tonight, his songs are deceptively effortless, whether tracing fractured emotional faultlines (Lost Out in the Darkness, where he warns: “If I see the black dog it’ll kill me”), toying with Springsteen-esque visions of escape to the highway (Jenny of the Roses) or searching for “beauty in the broken American moment” (I Need a Teacher, his “anthem for public education”). (Perhaps she’ll appreciate its resonant, thoroughly unmawkish treatise on the redemptive powers of parenthood when she’s older.) Taylor Processes His Pandemic Blues In Latest Album J NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with M.C. Describing the Durham-based Hiss Golden Messenger is like trying to grasp a forgotten word: Its always on the tip of your tongue, but hard to speak. He reveals that his new album was recorded under the spell of psychedelics, recommends the William Blake exhibition at Tate Britain and says his six-year-old daughter didn’t like the song he wrote for her, Happy Birthday, Baby. Playlist Music Interviews Hiss Golden Messenger's M.C. Alone beside a vase of flowers, looking like Ethan Hawke playing an artfully dishevelled literature professor, Taylor is drily avuncular, a natural between-song raconteur. by Hiss Golden Messenger supported by Alie Backwoods summer country thats porch ready but still a little raggedy around the edges.
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