![]() It all ends in a cloud of oscillating delay. A gathering sax swell heralds a stirring ascent around the refrain “Up with the mountains, down with the system” before choice licks wrung from simmering valve amps join the party. This time round, a group including Bonny Light Horseman bandmates Josh Kaufman and Anaïs Mitchell, Nashville guitarist Buddy Miller, songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov, Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith of folk-rock band Dawes and Hiss mainstay Scott Hirsch gathered at Overdub Lane in Durham, NC for sessions that were both organic and a cathartic outpouring after months of isolation.įrom the unhurried C/F/G chord progression that introduces Way Back In The Way Back, we’re ushered into a world of tranquility, Taylor reassuring “don’t be afraid, we’ll be fine in the morning”. Taylor, a lifetime scholar of American music, has spent the past 13 years refining his brew of alt-country, soul, spiritual jazz, gospel and blues styles, surrounding himself with a loose collective of seasoned musicians who play with rarefied feel and intuition. There, he crafted some two dozen song sketches between March and June 2020, and as lockdown began to ease the desire to collaborate called. ![]() With COVID emergent following a world tour that left him emotionally spent and pining for his family, Taylor took respite in an eight by 10-foot space beneath his North Carolina home that houses a vast discerning record collection and a mini studio. ![]() Perhaps the pacific mood is reflective of the environment Taylor’s new album was conceived in. READ MORE: The Genius Of… Good News For People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse.Quietly Blowing It feels like an oasis of sanguine calm during a period when the world has seemed frequently at risk of spinning off its axis. Yet his proclamations on new single Hardlytown, and so many others on Hiss Golden Messenger’s ninth studio album, are imbued with a defiant hope. As far as parental advice goes, MC Taylor’s “The world feels broken, I ain’t joking babe” is pretty stark.
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