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hiss golden messenger
Jump for Joy
Merge Records
As playful a record as we've heard from HGM in some time - there's a swing, a wink, and a tumbling chorus lurking around the bend of every joyous verse.
'Jump for Joy' dances with joyful, spontaneous energy that feels like a fresh chapter in the Hiss Golden Messenger oeuvre. 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.
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