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

just worked

Double Black Vinyl with discobag inner-sleeves in gatefold sleeve

the second half bleak and melancholic

and we all knew it

Phil Spector

A limited edition 40th anniversary version of Unknown Pleasures released

communal vibe feels like an attempt by the Cherry's to show Don’s jazz audience that he was moving on

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but also deeply harmonically musical

while trying to ft in the Beach Boys and the Beatles somewhere in between

too violent

He was there with Rapper Earl Sweatshirt and Producer Alchemist