![]() Reminiscent of Iron & Wine’s Beast Epic and Gregory Alan Isakov’s Evening Machines – and even The Killers’ most recent LP, Pressure Machine – Quietly Blowing It manages to feel vast and sweeping, small and focused all at once: Both from a lyrical perspective, as from a musical one. ![]() Hiss Golden Messenger © Chris Frisina Through all that muck, Hiss Golden Messenger emerges triumphantly with a record of daily living within and amongst these greater faulty, flawed and failing constructs. them mentality, an endless war on foreign soil, and so on. His songs speak to moments of self-discovery and searching of finding inner strength through moments of personal doubt, and more – all within the context of life in 20: A fragile, worn and weary American psyche embittered by years of divisive rhetoric, an us vs. Taylor approaches the latest Hiss Golden Messenger LP with understated grace and remarkable passion. With poetic self-expression in one hand and social, cultural, and political-tinted observations or critiques in the other, songwriter M.C. Out Jvia Merge Records, Quietly Blowing It follows 2019’s radiant GRAMMY-nominated Terms of Surrender as a softer, yet nonetheless invigorating and charged sign of the times. Quietly Blowing It – Hiss Golden Messenger You can call me the wheel All I wanna do is roll it From Tucson to Tulsa This long-distance love, babe- What a lonely thing to call it Don’t be afraid We’ll be fine in the morning Food on the table A body that’s able We’ll be fine in the morning Up with the mountains Down with the system That keeps us in chains Hearing our whispering Baby blue sky Building a prison Way back in the way back – “ Way Back in the Way Back,” Hiss Golden Messenger ![]() Built off inner turbulence, external turmoil, and our shared search for balance amid loss, fracture, and change, Quietly Blowing It is an intimate and nuanced soundtrack to getting by. It’s an introspective, resilient record of renewal and perseverance of both individual and societal upheaval of making our way through each day with our own burdens, carrying not only the ghosts of the past, but also the weight of the world on our shoulders. Golden and glistening, subtle and subdued, Hiss Golden Messenger’s eleventh studio album is a heartfelt and sincere reflection of the present moment. This is me mourning, and celebrating, and dancing, and crying, and praying, and hoping. Making this music became a document and a reckoning, an act of contrition and a cry for change. for fans of Fruit Bats, Lucero, Gregory Alan Isakov, Iron & Wine, Leif Vollebekk Stream: ‘Quietly Blowing It’ – Hiss Golden Messenger And I got the time required in order to do that.Golden and glistening, subtle and subdued, Hiss Golden Messenger’s ‘Quietly Blowing It’ is a heartfelt and sincere reflection of the present moment: Built off inner turbulence, external turmoil, and our shared search for balance amid loss, fracture, and change, it’s an intimate and nuanced soundtrack to getting by. “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. “When I think of the phrase ‘quietly blowing it,’ I think of all the ways that I’ve misstepped, misused my gifts, miscommunicated. “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. Penned in the refuge of Taylor’s home studio, the lyrical content has grown increasingly resonant within the current context of normalized turbulence.
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