Hiss Golden Messenger - Terms of Surrender (VINYL LP Merge MRG675) | NEW

Label: Merge Records – MRG675
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: USA & Canada
Released: Sep 20, 2019
Genre: Rock

A1        I Need A Teacher    3:17
A2        Bright Direction (You're A Dark Star Now)    4:24
A3        My Wing    4:26
A4        Old Enough To Wonder Why (East Side---West Side)    4:23
A5        Cat's Blue Eye    3:49
B1        Happy Birthday, Baby    3:45
B2        Down At The Uptown    3:26
B3        Katy (You Don't Have To Be Good Yet)    3:57
B4        Whip    4:29
B5        Terms Of Surrender
Written-By – Josh Kaufman
3:11

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Merge Records
Copyright © – Merge Records
Copyright © – M.C. Taylor
Copyright © – Prophecy Connection (2)
Recorded At – Long Pond
Recorded At – Sound City Studios
Recorded At – Haptown Studio
Recorded At – Overdub Lane
Mixed At – Long Pond
Mixed At – Flora Recording & Playback
Mastered At – The Kitchen
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Banjo, Vocals, Producer, Written-By – M.C. Taylor
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano – Aaron Dessner
Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Synthesizer, Producer – Brad Cook
Drums, Percussion, Omnichord – Matt McCaughan
Electric Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Synthesizer – Josh Kaufman
Harmony Vocals – Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, Jenny Lewis, Madalyn Stefanak
Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Electric Guitar, Harmonica – Phil Cook
Recorded By [Additional] – Joseph Lorge, Roger Moutenot, William McClellan (2)
Recorded By [Additional], Mastered By – Chris Boerner
Recorded By [Additional], Mixed By – Tucker Martine
Recorded By, Mixed By – Jon Low*
Includes paper sleeve with lyrics and archival-quality poly sleeve.

Download card and hype sticker.
Barcode (Printed): 673855067513

Songwriter and bandleader M.C. Taylor's music is at once familiar, yet impossible to categorize: Elements from the American songbook-the steady, churning acoustic guitar and mandolin, the gospel emotion, the eerie steel guitar tracings, the bobbing and weaving organ and electric piano-provide the bedrock for Taylor's existential ruminations about parenthood, joy, hope, and loneliness-our delicate, tightrope balance of dark and light-that offer fully engaged contemporary commentary on the present. And then there's an indescribable spirit and movement: Hiss Golden Messenger's music grooves. There's nothing else quite like it.

Taylor says that he wanted to make Terms of Surrender "a wandering record. I wanted where we recorded it to mirror the searching spirit of the music." Having written upwards of 40 songs-in motel rooms, his studio in North Carolina, and a secluded cottage outside of Charlottesville, Virginia-Taylor winnowed them down to the ten works that comprise Terms of Surrender. With regular collaborators-including Phil and Brad Cook, Josh Kaufman, and Matt McCaughan-and new friends like Jenny Lewis and Aaron Dessner (of The National), the crew decamped to Dessner's Long Pond studio in upstate New York, Sound City in Los Angeles, and producer Roger Moutenot's Haptown studio in Nashville to create the most fully realized and genre-defying Hiss Golden Messenger album to date.

• Condition: NEW
• Format: Vinyl
• Internal ID: 673855067513
• Format Detail: LP
• Genre: ROCK
• Released: 2019-09-20