Hiss Golden Messenger have announced the release of a new studio album, Quietly Blowing It, and it will be out on June 25 via Merge Records.
“I went looking for peace,” says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger about his new album. “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 sort of impressionistic hues. 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. And I got the time required in order to do that.” He pauses and laughs ruefully. “I got way more time than I needed, actually.”
With the album’s announcement comes the release of a new single, “If It Comes In the Morning.” Listen to it below:
Quietly Blowing It was written and arranged by Taylor in his home studio—his 8’ × 10’ sanctuary packed floor to ceiling with books, records, and old guitars—as he watched the chaotic world spin outside his window. “Writing became a daily routine,” he explains, “and that was a ballast for me. Having spent so much time on the road over the past ten years, where writing consistently with any kind of flow can be tricky, it felt refreshing. And being in my studio, which is both isolated from and totally connected to the life of my family, felt appropriate for these songs.”
Quietly Blowing It artwork & tracklist:
01. Way Back in the Way Back
02. The Great Mystifier
03. Mighty Dollar
04. Quietly Blowing It
05. It Will If We Let It
06. Hardlytown
07. If It Comes in the Morning
08. Glory Strums (Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner)
09. Painting Houses
10. Angels in the Headlights
11. Sanctuary