![]() ![]() ![]() “mystical country, like an eerie yellowing photograph” – David Bowie In April of 2013 Paradise of Bachelors will release HGM’s eagerly anticipated full-length follow up to Poor Moon, the remarkable Haw (PoB-06). Their 2011 LP Poor Moon 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. ![]() Here is a track from the upcoming new album,ĭrawing 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–Ĭoncerns and characters, as well as a taut lyricism informed by writers as disparate as Ronnie Lane and Lew Welch, Taylor’s unabashedly ardent songs rank among the most exquisitely crafted and eloquent of his generation. Charles Speer & the Helix & Brightblack Morning Light-have released a string of universally acclaimed albums as Hiss Golden Messenger. The pair previously recorded as the Court and Spark but since 2009 the duo-in collaboration with longtime drummer Terry Lonergan, Nashville guitarist William Tyler, and members of Megafaun, the Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, D. Taylor and multi-instrumentalist Scott Hirsch. Hiss Golden Messenger is Durham, North Carolina-based songwriter M.C. “Country-soul greatness… Poor Moon is a beautiful, accomplished record…” 4/5 Uncut ![]()
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