Hiss Golden Messenger lyrics
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Artist's albums
20 Years and a Nickel
2023 · single
Nu-Grape
2023 · single
Still Some Light
2022 · single
O Come All Ye Faithful
2021 · album
Quietly Blowing It
2021 · album
Sanctuary
2021 · single
Christmas in Prison
2019 · single
Terms of Surrender
2019 · album
Everybody Needs Somebody
2019 · single
Watching the Wires
2019 · single
Virgo Fool
2018 · album
Hiss Golden Messenger Meets Spacebomb
2018 · single
Hallelujah Anyhow
2017 · album
Standing in the Doorway
2017 · single
Heart Like a Levee
2016 · album
Heart Like a Levee (Deluxe Version)
2016 · album
Southern Grammar
2015 · EP
Lateness of Dancers
2014 · album
Brother, Do You Know the Road?
2014 · single
Haw (Remastered)
2013 · album
Lord I Love the Rain
2012 · EP
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Biography
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.