Hiss Golden Messenger - Jump For JoyIts spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and singer M. C. Taylor leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger is feeling alive. Joyful. Eternal, he might say. For the Grammy nominated musician, whose albums have traced an internal path through adulthood, fatherhood, spirituality, and depression for well over a decade, this is something new. The tunes on Jump for Joy were composed in free moments throughout 2022, a year during

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In the album's sleeve notes

“Cyrk is a curious musical brew that blends Velvet Underground-style shaggy jangles with a kind of bucolic psych-folk sound” BBC Music

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This last year has seen Albarn return to the music in lockdown and develop the work to 11 tracks which further explore themes of fragility

The album was a new direction for Marianne and was written with the Italian composer Angelo Badalamenti

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an underscores both relationships with a sense of subtlety and melodrama

Emerging from an extended stay at Bidston Observatory on the Wirral

“The album is a celebration of the natural world

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