Merge Records

Hiss Golden Messenger - Jump For Joy [Peak Edition ORANGE & BLACK SWIRL VINYL w/ Posters!] - New LP

$ 26.98

This comes with 3 prints!!! 1) Newsprint poster only available with Peak edition (see photo); 2) promo poster not usually included with any edition; 3) a limited 12 x 12 art print (see photo) that is not part of any edition but was included with the first orders.

The songs that make up Jump for Joy—the sharpest and most autobiographical that M.C. Taylor has written under the Hiss 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.

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, just a short walk from the Mexican border, 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.

releases August 25, 2023

M.C. Taylor – acoustic and electric guitar, singing
Alex Bingham – bass, Juno, Prophet, MPC, OP-1, Mellotron, singing
Chris Boerner – acoustic and electric guitar, synthesizer
Nick Falk – drums and percussion, singing
Sam Fribush – piano, Hammond organ, Clavinet, Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, Yamaha CP-70, synthesizer, steel pan, singing

Matt Douglas – saxophone
Meg Duffy – singing
Alice Gerrard – counting
Tatiana Hargreaves – fiddle
Amy Helm – singing
Eric D. Johnson – singing
Aoife O’Donovan – singing

Produced by M.C. Taylor.

Recorded at Sonic Ranch, Tornillo, TX, by Scott Hirsch, with assistance from Mario Ramirez.
Additional recording by M.C. Taylor at Dad’s Bar & Grill, Durham, NC;
Chris Boerner at The Palace, Raleigh, NC, and Overdub Lane, Durham, NC;
Meg Duffy at Hanging Rock Studios, Los Angeles, CA; and
Pete Hanlon at Moonlight Lane Studios, West Saugerties, NY.

Mixed by Chris Boerner and M.C. Taylor at The Palace.
Mastered at The Kitchen Mastering, Carrboro, NC.

All songs written by M.C. Taylor/Prophecy Connection Songs, BMI. Copyright 2023.
Arranged and orchestrated by Taylor, Bingham, Boerner, Falk, and Fribush.

Hiss Golden Messenger is represented by Brian Schwartz and Brody Miller at 7S Management and by Adam Voith at Creative Artists Agency. Our grateful thanks.

Cover photograph by M.C. Taylor. Interior photographs and artwork by Chris Frisina. Layout and design by Daniel Murphy.

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