MC Taylor, the North Carolina tunesmith behind the long-running indie-folk venture Hiss Golden Messenger, is again with a brand new set of tunes. The upcoming file, “I’m Individuals,” drops Could 1 on Chrysalis Information, and Taylor just lately unveiled a preview with the lead single, “Within the Center of It.”
The brand new monitor is paying homage to the tried-and-true Hiss sound heard on information like 2016’s “Coronary heart Like a Levee,” with a gently comforting groove buoyed by gospel-hued harmonies. On the core are Taylor’s spiritually looking lyrics, which all the time appear to be reaching for large existential truths inside little moments.
“The songs on ‘I’m Individuals’ are about working in direction of and away from issues, about cheap and real looking hope and expectations, about having infants, getting older, love and lust and luck and music,” Taylor defined in an announcement. “They’re songs about solitude and heartbreak and poverty of the spirit, and perhaps group as some type of antidote for these explicit forms of sicknesses.
Taylor made the file with producer Josh Kaufman in a decommissioned church turned studio outdoors of Woodstock, N.Y. The album options a powerful checklist of particular company, together with Bruce Hornsby, Sam Beam of Iron & Wine, Marcus King, Sara Watkins, Amy Helm, Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats, and Griff and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes.
Hiss Golden Messenger will tour in assist of the file this fall, with regional dates in Richmond, Va., on the Broadberry on November 18 and Asheville, N.C., on the Orange Peel on November 19.
