| Release Date: | 082523 |
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August 25 street date. The songs that make up "Jump For Joy" - the sharpest and most autobiographical that songwriter and singer M.C. Taylor has written under the Hiss Golden Messenger name - read as a sort of epistolary, postcards between the present-day songwriter and his alias Michael Crow, a teenaged dreamer very much like Taylor himself, who trips his way through the 14 tunes that make up the record.
In this way, "Jump For Joy" is a meditation on a life lived with art, and the ways that our hopes and dreams and decisions bump up against - and, with a little bit of luck, occasionally merge with - real life. "Creating this character became the way that I could explore these vulnerable, tender moments that were so decisive in my life, even if I didn't know it at the time", explains Taylor. Produced by Taylor and engineered by longtime Hiss compatriot Scott Hirsch over two weeks in the late fall of 2022 at the fabled Sonic Ranch studio in Tornillo, TX, "Jump For Joy" dances with joyful, spontaneous energy that feels like a fresh chapter in the Hiss Golden Messenger oeuvre. Taylor is accompanied throughout the album by his crack live band: guitarist Chris Boerner, bassist Alex Bingham, keyboardist Sam Fribush, and drummer Nick Falk, a collection of musicians that have helped make Hiss Golden Messenger's live performances legendary affairs.
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