A new Hiss Golden Messenger album, given the songs’ lyrical concerns for the cycles of nature and truths both cosmic and domestic, always seems to correspond somehow to a season’s reach. We released the autumnal Poor Moon on the Day of the Dead (Nov. 1) back in 2011, and the new eagerly anticipated, full-length, full-band follow-up, Haw, arrives on April 2, at the crest of Spring.
The much anticipated, full-length, full-band follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2011 album Poor Moon (PoB-02), these 11 exquisite songs about faith, family, and an ill-prophesied future represent HGM’s most ambitious and urgent work yet, conjuring dark, half-remembered dreams. (ON SALE)
Happy New Year, friends of Paradise! Welcome to our new website, which we hope you agree is a vast improvement. We’re excited for 2013, a year when we’ll be growing the label significantly and releasing a number of deep-digging reissues as well as some exciting releases by contemporary artists. However, the news today is that we are now accepting pre-orders for PoB-05, the first-ever reissue of the harrowing, choogling 1983 album by the Red Rippers.
Paradise of Bachelors is pleased to announce the first-ever recorded collaboration between Hiss Golden Messenger and Elephant Micah, featuring two of their generation’s most compelling songwriters and lyricists. (ON SALE)
Composed and arranged by Head Messenger M.C. Taylor at his home in the rural Piedmont mill town of Pittsboro and recorded with longtime collaborator Scott Hirsch in New York, California and North Carolina, Poor Moon offers a moving culmination of the spiritually-charged song cycle commenced the critically acclaimed Bad Debt album. (OUT OF PRINT)
Originally released as a digital-only EP, the collection has been reconstituted as a fully realized long playing album that juxtaposes grainy kitchen table gospel and dusted imaginary sci-fi soundtrack pieces. Lord I Love the Rain is the sound of Hiss Golden Messenger after hours.
Fall has landed here in North Carolina, and fittingly, Durham’s own Hiss Golden Messenger is on the turntable. Nearly a year ago–on the Day of the Dead, to be exact–we released HGM’s excellent Poor Moon album, and this fall we’re working hard to help prepare their superb follow-up LP, entitled Haw.
In case you missed the all-star Hiss Golden Messenger performance at Hopscotch this past weekend in Raleigh’s Fletcher Opera Theater–one of six shows M.C. Taylor played!–you’re in for a treat. The fine folks at NYC Taper have posted streams, free downloadable audio files, photos, and an essay documenting the extended set here on their site (they also took these photos.) Thanks, y’all!
Despite its mere seven inches, this is one big record by two of our favorite songwriters. For more details, to preview the songs, and to pre-order (check out the Hiss Golden Messenger and Elephant Micah pre-order bundles), visit our PoB-04 product page forthwith. The official release date is September 4th, 2012.
M.C. Taylor reveals some surprising inspirations in an eloquent “Writer of the Week” interview in American Songwriter magazine: “I write songs for my son and my wife and friends, and for what portions there are of my faith. I keep a Bible close at hand; it’s an important book full of lessons and folly and jokes. I look for strong melodic inspiration everywhere; I hear it most in contemporary pop music on the radio when I’m driving. We, as crafters of melody, should be listening to more Rick Ross and Katy Perry.”
