View basket “Birds Fly South” has been added to your basket. Paul's picks Quietly Blowing It Hiss Golden Messenger SKU: 20.00 21.00 £20.00 - £21.00 £20.00 - £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge Records Released Date: 25th June 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code 1LP Includes Download Code Buying Options Choose an option1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code1LP Includes Download CodeClear Quietly Blowing It quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “I went looking for peace,” says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger about his new album Quietly Blowing It. “It’s not exactly a record about the state of the world or my world in 2020, but more a retrospective of the past five years of my life, painted in sort of impressionistic hues. Maybe I had the presence of mind when I was writing Quietly Blowing It to know that this was the time to go as deep as I needed to in order to make a record like this. And I got the time required in order to do that.” Quietly Blowing It was written and arranged by Taylor in his home studio his 8’ × 10’ sanctuary packed floor to ceiling with books, records, and old guitars as he watched the chaotic world spin outside his window. “Writing became a daily routine,” he explains, “and that was a ballast for me. Having spent so much time on the road over the past ten years, where writing consistently with any kind of flow can be tricky, it felt refreshing. And being in my studio, which is both isolated from and totally connected to the life of my family, felt appropriate for these songs.” Between March and June, Taylor wrote and recorded upwards of two dozen songs in most cases playing all of the instruments himself before winnowing the collection down and bringing them to the Hiss band. In July, the group of musicians, with Taylor in the production seat, went into Overdub Lane in Durham, NC, for a week, where they recorded Quietly Blowing It as an organic unit honed to a fine edge from their years together on the road. Throughout Quietly Blowing It, Taylor brings his keen eye to our “broken American moment” as he first sang on Hiss Golden Messenger’s critically acclaimed, GRAMMY®- nominated Terms of Surrender (2019) in ways that feel devastatingly intimate and human. Beginning with the wanderer’s lament of “Way Back in the Way Back,” Taylor carries the listener on a musical journey that continually returns to themes of growing up, loss, obligation, and labor with piercing clarity, and his musical influences including classic Southern soul and gospel, renegade country, and spiritual jazz have never felt more genuine. Indeed, Quietly Blowing It is a distillation of the rolling Hiss Golden Messenger groove, from the rollicking, Allman-esque “The Great Mystifier” to the chiming falsetto soul of “It Will If We Let It,” to the smoky, shuffling title track with its bittersweet guitar assist from Nashville legend Buddy Miller. The album ends with soulful lead single “Sanctuary,” a song about trying to reconcile tragedy and joy, with references to John Prine, economic disparity, and the redemptive quality of hope. Indeed, when he sings, “Feeling bad, feeling blue, can’t get out of my own mind; but I know how to sing about it,” it feels like the album’s spiritual thesis. Artist Hiss Golden Messenger Genre Americana / Country Label Merge Records Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code , 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings SIDE A Way Back in the Way Back The Great Mystifier Mighty Dollar Quietly Blowing It It Will If We Let It SIDE B Hardlytown If It Comes in the Morning Glory Strums (Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner) Painting Houses Angels in the Headlights Sanctuary 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 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