HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER - JUMP FOR JOY (LP)

LTD PEAK VINYL EDITION via MERGE, ORANGE & BLACK SWIRL VINYL LP and OUR COPIES ARRIVED DIRECT FROM THE LABEL WITH AN EXCLUSIVE ART PRINT THAT YOU WON'T FIND IN TOO MANY SHOPS. "It’s spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and singer M.C.Taylor—leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger—is feeling alive. Joyful. Eternal,he might say. For the Grammy-nominated musician, whose albums have traced aninternal path through adulthood, fatherhood, spirituality, and depression for well overa decade, this is something new. “The tunes on Jump for Joy were composed in freemoments throughout 2022, a year during which Hiss was on the road more or lessconstantly,” explains Taylor. “And perhaps because the post-pandemic energy out inthe world felt so chaotic and uncertain, I found myself thinking a lot about the rolethat music has played in my life and how exactly I ended up in the rarefied positionof leading a band and crew all over the globe through dingy graffiti-scrawled gree