Hiss Golden Messenger share "Drum" from the Bad Debt re-issue due out 1/14 on Paradise of Bachelors

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER SHARE "DRUM"
BAD DEBT REISSUE OUT 1/14 VIA PARADISE OF BACHELORS
 

LISTEN TO "DRUM” VIA PITCHFORK HERE
 

Hiss Golden Messenger has shared "Drum" (please post & share), a track from Bad Debt, which is being reissued in an Expanded Edition on January 14th by Paradise of Bachelors Records.  The Expanded Edition restores the album's originally intended full song sequence and includes never previously released tracks.  Pitchfork has called the track "simultaneously fraught with anxiety and shot through with wondering calm, an emotional cocktail that anyone whose sat awake while their child sleeps will recognize instantly."

ABOUT HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER:

Hiss Golden Messenger is Durham, North Carolina-based songwriter M.C. Taylor and multi-instrumentalist and recordist Scott Hirsch, who lives in Brooklyn, New York. The pair has been making music together for twenty years in various incarnations, including six records with the San Francisco band the Court and Spark.

Since 2009, Taylor and Hirsch—in collaboration with longtime drummer Terry Lonergan, Nashville guitarist William Tyler, and members of Megafaun, the Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, D. Charles Speer & the Helix, Brightblack Morning Light—have released a string of universally acclaimed albums as Hiss Golden Messenger: Country Hai East Cotton(2009), Root Work (2010), Bad Debt (2010, soon to be reissued by Paradise of Bachelors), Poor Moon (PoB-02, 2011), Hiss Golden Messenger Plays Elephant Micah Plays Hiss Golden Messenger (PoB-04, 2012), Lord I Love the Rain (2012), and Haw(PoB-06, 2013.)

Drawing from the deep well of traditional and vernacular Southern song that Taylor has explored and documented as a practicing folklorist, as well as the more alchemical strains of 1970’s country-rock, dub music, and kosmische music, “like Van Morrison circa Astral Weeks, Hiss Golden Messenger confounds traditional-music genre expectations” (according to The Huffington Post.) Distinguished by their fascinatingly ambiguous conjuring of spiritual–and often specifically Biblical–concerns and characters, as well as a taut lyricism informed by writers as disparate as Ronnie Lane, Lew Welch, and Wendell Berry, Taylor’s unabashedly ardent songs rank among the most exquisitely crafted and eloquent of his generation.

Their 2011 LP Poor Moon (PoB-02) has been hailed as a masterful and moving country-soul statement on faith and family by Pitchfork, Uncut, Salon, and many others, leading to profiles of Taylor by NPR, The Oxford American, and Interview Magazine. In April of 2013 Paradise of Bachelors released HGM’s eagerly anticipated full-length follow up to Poor Moon, the remarkable, and darker, Haw (PoB-06), which earned glowing reviews from the New York Times, MOJO, The Times of London, the Washington Post, and beyond, becoming one of the year’s most critically lauded recordings.

 

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER

BAD DEBT
(PARADISE OF BACHELORS RECORDS)
JANUARY 14, 2013

1. Balthazar's Song
2. No Lord Is Free
3. Bad Debt
4. O Little Light
5. Straw Man Red Sun River Gold
6. Far Bright Star
7. The Serpent Is Kind (Compared To Man)
8. Call Him Daylight
9. Jesus Shot Me In The Head
10. Super Blue (Two Days Clean)
11. Roll River Roll
12. Drum

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