HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER
Terms of Surrender is part apology, part plea, part love letter,” says Hiss Golden Messenger bandleader MC Taylor of his latest album. “It’s about how much of the most important parts of ourselves we can sacrifice and still feel like we’re living the life that we thought we wanted.” It’s an album that documents a tumultuous year and subsequent redemption. Taylor stretched out of his Durham NC base to record with Aaron Dessner of The National in New York, at Sound City in LA and in Nashville with the aim of making, “a wandering record”. “I wanted where we recorded it to mirror the searching spirit of the music,” he says.