Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 25 August 2023. The songs that make up Jump for Joy — the sharpest and most autobiographical that M.C. Taylor has written under the Hiss Golden Messenger name — read as a sort of epistolary, postcards between the present-day…
On the current single from his new album, “Sanctuary,” singer/songwriter MC Taylor, a.k.a. Hiss Golden Messenger, gets that the world is a mess right now. “Feeling bad, feeling blue,” he sings, acknowledging that “I know it feels like hell now/‘Til we get to the otherside,” he wants to offer solace and security but “I can’t…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 2 July 2021. Red velvet curtains draw back to reveal a cosmic wheel of fortune, floating in the deep black star-studded theater of infinite space. A whirl of timbres, personalities, and stories. The Turning Wheel, the third full-length by…
