Product Description
Title: Hiss Golden Messenger – Jump for Joy Format: Vinyl LP + Download Label: Merge Barcode: 0673855082516
Release date: August 25th 2023
- LP is black vinyl in a gatefold w/ printed sleeve + a printed insert for album download.
The songs that make up Jump for Joy the sharpest and most autobiographical that Taylor has written under the Hiss name read as a sort of epistolary, postcards between the present-day songwriter and his alias Michael Crow, a teenaged dreamer very much like Taylor himself, who trips his way through the 14 tunes that make up the record. In this way, Jump for Joy is a meditation on a life lived with art, and the ways that our hopes and dreams and decisions bump up against and, with a little bit of luck, occasionally merge with real life. “Creating this character became the way that I could explore these vulnerable, tender moments that were so decisive in my life, even if I didn’t know it at the time,” explains Taylor.
Tracklising:
SIDE A
1. 20 Years and a Nickel
2. Alice
3. I Saw the New Day in the World
4. Shinbone
5. Little Pink Church
6. Jesus Is Bored
7. Nu-Grape
SIDE B
8. Feeling Eternal
9. Jump for Joy
10. The Wondering
11. Palo Santo/Cloud Mesa
12. California King
13. My Old Friends
14. Sunset on the Faders
