And I got the time required in order to do that. “Maybe I had the presence of mind when I was writing Quietly Blowing It to know that this was the time to go as deep as I needed to in order to make a record like this. “It’s not exactly a record about the state of the world-or my world -in 2020, but more a retrospective of the past five years of my life, painted in a sort of impressionistic hues,” Taylor continues. The accompanying music video was directed by KidEthnic. Special guests and contributors on Quietly Blowing It include Griffin and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Tony Award-winning artist Anaïs Mitchell, Zach Williams of The Lone Bellow, Nashville guitar great Buddy Miller, and producer/musician Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman. The forthcoming record follows Terms of Surrender (2019) was Grammy Award-nominated for Best Americana Album. ‘Born on the level, quietly blowing it.’ That’s what’s on my mind there. The times that we’re living through have made me think, in so many different ways, large and small, about our obligations to one another, says M. “When I think of the phrase ‘quietly blowing it,’ I think of all the ways that I’ve misstepped, misused my gifts, miscommunicated. Since World Cafe host Raina Douris last spoke with Taylor in 2019, Hiss Golden Messengers last album, Terms of Surrender, was nominated for best Americana album at the Grammy Awards. “These songs always circle back to the things that I feel like I have a handle on and the things that I’m not proud of about myself,” says Taylor. Though some days the world was burning outside his window, Taylor “went looking for peace.” The songs from Quietly Blowing It are often introspective vignettes that just so happen to timestamp a pivotal moment in living history. Pre-order it here.Penned in the refuge of Taylor’s home studio, the lyrical content has grown increasingly resonant within the current context of normalized turbulence. Quietly Blowing It is out 6/25 on Merge Records. Hiss Golden Messenger has also announced a big winter tour check out the video and the dates below.ġ2/07 – Philadelphia, PA World Cafe LiveĢ/23-24 – Portland, OR Mississippi Studiosģ/02 – Salt Lake City, UT The Commonwealth Roomģ/10 – Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Cafe In a press release, Taylor says, “‘Glory Strums’ was written in the chaotic green spring of 2020 as a hymn to finding the places and spaces that make us human.” The song has a video in which director, a singer-songwriter himself, looks dapper while working on his fitness. “Glory Strums” is a pretty little acoustic amble of a song. We’ve already posted the early tracks “ Sanctuary,” “ If It Comes In The Morning,” and “ Hardlytown.” Today, they’ve shared a new track called “Glory Strums (Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner).” The follow-up to 2019’s Terms Of Surrender features contributors like Anaïs Mitchell, Dawes’ Griffin and Taylor Goldsmith, and Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman.
In any case, Hiss Golden Messenger will release the new album Quietly Blowing It.
So I will take this opportunity to ask: Is there some big secret bond between Hiss Golden Messenger and people who work as educators? Are they a teacher-culture band? I was at the show with a friend who happens to be a teacher, but when I asked him if Hiss Golden Messenger were just some kind of big band among teachers, he didn’t know. 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. Before one song, Taylor asked how many teachers were in the audience that night, and something like half the crowd cheered. 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. Taylor’s soft, reassuring Americana project Hiss Golden Messenger. A few months before the pandemic started, I went to see M.C.
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