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Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness Of Dancers Vinyl Record

Name: Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness Of Dancers Vinyl Record
Brand: Merge
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Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness Of Dancers Vinyl Record

Hiss Golden Messenger is Durham, North Carolina-based songwriter M.C. Taylor. Lateness of Dancers is his fifth full-length under the moniker. It’s an open, confident, immediate album, and it feels, at times, like a direct response to the darkness of Taylor’s last record, 2013’s Haw, or to the searching of 2010’s Bad Debt, the stunning acoustic LP he made at his kitchen table shortly after the birth of his son.

Lateness of Dancers was recorded in a tin-roofed barn outside of Hillsborough, North Carolina, last fall and includes many of Taylor’s longtime collaborators, like Phil and Brad Cook of Megafaun, the guitarist William Tyler, and his erstwhile recording partner Scott Hirsch. Alexandra Sauser-Monnig of Mountain Man contributes backing vocals; her tender, wooly voice both complements and challenges Taylor’s.

The record takes its name from a Eudora Welty story, which is noteworthy not because of its origins - although there are hints of Welty in Taylor’s work, and not just Welty but Flannery O’Connor and Faulkner and Barry Hannah and Larry Brown and the whole pantheon of brutal and exquisite southern writers - but because Taylor is the type of person who recognizes the beauty in a phrase like that.

It is a record about self-discovery and self-knowledge, and how impossible it is to outsmart yourself. I don’t know how you learn a lesson like that, except the hard way. “The misery of love is a funny thing / The more it hurts / The more you think / You can stand a little pain,” he sings on “Mahogany Dread,” one of Lateness’ most telling tracks. These are the kinds of lies we tell ourselves to feel the things we want to feel, even when those pleasures are buried in a whole lot of hurt.

1. Lucia

2. Saturday’s Song

3. Mahogany Dread

4. Day O Day (A Love So Free)

5. Lateness Of Dancers

6. I’m A Raven (Shake Children)

7. Black Dog Wind (Rose of Roses)

8. Southern Grammar

9. Chapter & Verse (Ione’s Song)

10. Drum

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Treat it like your grandma, you know if she was a record. Know what I mean? Tender care, don't talk back, and never interupt during Murder She Wrote. Wait - what the hell was I writing about-