Paul's picks Terms Of Surrender Hiss Golden Messenger SKU: 20.00 21.00 £20.00 - £21.00 £20.00 - £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge Released Date: 20th September 2019 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Terms Of Surrender quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info MRG675LPC1 is pressed on coke-bottle clear vinyl & includes a 22.75″ x 33″ foldout poster insert, this is for Cargo Collective stores only. Describing the Durham based Hiss Golden Messenger is 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. And then there’s an indescribable spirit and movement: Hiss Golden Messenger’s music grooves. There’s nothing else quite like it. For over ten years, Taylor has spearheaded this prolific, perpetually evolving group. He’s toured and recorded relentlessly, earning devotees along the roads, deep in festival pits, and across the seas. “The work that I do requires me to be in a certain emotional place,” says Taylor. “My music depends first and foremost on being in a heightened emotional state and putting my vulnerability on display.” This vulnerability is also central to Taylor’s steadily growing fanbase, which continues to discover universal themes in his deeply personal work. The critical acclaim and attention for Hiss Golden Messenger and barn-burning performances on Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Seth Meyers affirm the emotional power of Taylor’s work. This raw emotion is especially apparent on Hiss Golden Messenger’s new album, Terms of Surrender. Terms follows Taylor’s journey through a tumultuous year of trauma and psychological darkness, hoping and working towards redemption and healing, and the conflicting draw of home and movement. “Another year older,” Taylor sings on album opener “I Need a Teacher.” “Debt slightly deeper. Paycheck smaller. Goddamn, I need a teacher.” Later, Taylor tracks the complex dynamic between father and grown son on “Cat’s Eye Blue,” singing, “Is this wicked word too bad to be spoken? You let the heart attack in. One taste and it’s broken.” He later pivots towards his relationship with his own daughter on “Happy Birthday, Baby.” Taylor says that he wanted to make Terms of Surrender “a wandering record. I wanted where we recorded it to mirror the searching spirit of the music.” Having written upwards of 40 songs in motel rooms, his studio in Durham, and a secluded cottage outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, 10 songs were chosen. Includes regular collaborators Phil and Brad Cook, Josh Kaufman, and Matt McCaughan and new friends like Jenny Lewis and Aaron Dessner (of The National). Hiss Golden Messenger songs create feelings to which devoted listeners attach their own meanings and memories with each repeated spin. Throughout Terms of Surrender, those feelings range from fearful to celebratory. But perhaps the title track with its refrain of “I’m gonna give it/ but don’t make me say it/ It’s one thing to bend it, my love, but another to break it” best summarizes the nature of Taylor’s work as a musician, father and spouse, and cultural communicator on this album. Artist Hiss Golden Messenger Genre Americana / Country Label Merge Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings 1 I Need A Teacher 2 Bright Direction (You’re A Dark Star Now) 3 My Wing 4 Old Enough To Wonder Why (East Side West Side) 5 Cat’s Eye Blue 6 Happy Birthday, Baby 7 Down At The Uptown 8 Katy (You Don’t Have To Be Good Yet) 9 Whip 10 Terms Of Surrender Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Hiss Golden Messenger 2023's picks View Product Quick View Hiss Golden Messenger Jump for Joy Americana / Country | Merge | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 25th August 2023 £24.00 Select options Hiss Golden Messenger Jump for Joy £24.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th August 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Hiss Golden Messenger O Come All Ye Faithful Americana / Country | Merge Records | 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