Rather than cynical or despairing, however, Bad Debt sounds hopeful, exuding a sense of hushed celebration. Even so, a deep sense of uncertainty pervades every syllable and every strum, as though no question can ever be answer satisfactorily, and it is precisely that spiritual disaffection that separates Taylor from the artists for whom God’s existence and benevolence are givens.
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These songs sound full and finished even in their austerity. That field-recording aesthetic is the musical equivalent of sackcloth, especially compared to the lusher Appalachian folk-rock arrangements on his subsequent albums*.* Heard in the skewed chronology of the growing Hiss Golden Messenger catalog, Bad Debt may strike some listeners as mere demos, yet there is nothing missing from these performances, no sense of potential left untapped. These are subtle flourishes, yet they add urgency and depth to these songs and reinforce the sense of a live performance or a late-night rumination. On “Call Him Daylight” his vocals echo slightly, suggesting a conflicted soul. Ward at his most forceful-Taylor adds what sounds like a foot tapping against the floor to “Straw Man Red Sun River Gold” and “The Serpent Is Kind (Compared to Man)”. Profile: Roots/country rock project based in Durham, North Carolina and led by M.C. To that simple palette-which recalls the Tallest Man on Earth at his most reserved or M. That space and the lo-fi recording technology create a rustic reverb, as his strums and singing reverberate quietly against the walls.
Listening to these dozen songs, you can almost measure its dimensions. The homespun quality of these recordings is crucial: They are raw and rough, humble and private. That title pretty much sums up the spiritual dynamic, although who owes what to whom remains mysterious and unresolved.
Bad Debt is an album deeply concerned with the nature of faith and man’s relationship with his Maker. He delivers the line in a hush, even before the guitar enters, and that question resonates as both a gentle invitation to the listener and an invocation of a heavenly host. “Are you with me now”? Taylor sing-whispers at the very start of the album. Second-and much, much more crucial-that fire seems almost biblical in nature, as though God Himself reached down and smote Taylor.
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There are two reasons this tale of tribulation persists: First, it exposes the consequences of that fire and makes very real the sense of monetary and professional loss. Hiss Golden Messenger - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) presents Hiss Golden Messenger performing live in the KEXP studio. Yet neither story affects how we hear these modest and deeply moving songs three years later, when Bad Debt is finally getting a proper release-with three new tracks-via the Tar Heel State indie Paradise of Bachelors. That story has attached itself like a tall tale to the album, at least for those intrigued listeners who have dug deeper into Taylor’s catalog following the subsequent release of Poor Moonin 2011 and the mighty Haw in 2013. Taylor is a steadying, comforting presence in a rudderless world, and 90 minutes in his company pass very quickly – even if he only scratches the surface of his voluminous songbook.It’s almost impossible to imagine the magnitude of such a setback for any artist, but especially for one trying to launch a new venture. As deep into the inky darkness as his lyrics might delve, his luminous melodies are redemptive, every warmly familiar strum a healing salve for the abrasions his introspection risks. Played solo and acoustic tonight, his songs are deceptively effortless, whether tracing fractured emotional faultlines (Lost Out in the Darkness, where he warns: “If I see the black dog it’ll kill me”), toying with Springsteen-esque visions of escape to the highway (Jenny of the Roses) or searching for “beauty in the broken American moment” (I Need a Teacher, his “anthem for public education”). Taylor, are set to return with their upcoming studio album, Jump For Joy, on August 25 via Merge Records. (Perhaps she’ll appreciate its resonant, thoroughly unmawkish treatise on the redemptive powers of parenthood when she’s older.) Hiss Golden Messenger, the musical project led by M.C. He reveals that his new album was recorded under the spell of psychedelics, recommends the William Blake exhibition at Tate Britain and says his six-year-old daughter didn’t like the song he wrote for her, Happy Birthday, Baby.
Alone beside a vase of flowers, looking like Ethan Hawke playing an artfully dishevelled literature professor, Taylor is drily avuncular, a natural between-song raconteur.
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