Hiss Golden Messenger - Quietly Blowing It (June 25, 2021) Album

01 Way Back in the Way Back
02 The Great Mystifier
03 Mighty Dollar
04 Quietly Blowing It
05 It Will If We Let It
06 Hardlytown
07 If It Comes in the Morning
08 Glory Strums (Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner)
09 Painting Houses
10 Angels in the Headlights
11 Sanctuary

 

nice. love them

 

This album is going to be really good.

 

My peak LP preorder just shipped from Merge, really looking forward to hopefully getting to hear this a few days early. I've had "Glory Strums" on repeat today. Just an immaculate song.

 

I saw someone mention in a comment somewhere that Phil Cook isn't on this record, and after checking the liner notes on the Bandcamp page, that looks to be true. Wonder if there's a story there?

 

I’ve been curious about the same thing, and am really disappointed he’s not a part of it.

 

Got my copy, great album as usual! Some of the songs on here feel almost minimalist at times but everything is so performed and arranged so beautifully. “It Will If We Let It” is really making me smile today.

 

This sounded good on my first listen

 

This is really good

 

I think this is his best album.

 

Yeah feels like he got his mojo back on this one. Maybe Scott Hirsch is his secret sauce. The opener is instantly one of his best songs.

 

"Sanctuary" is one of my favorite songs of the year, and has definitely given me spurts of keep-your-head-up-ness when I've needed it the past 6 months. I never would have thought of it as a closer but damn does it work.

 

Still listening to this a ton. His stuff never gets old to me.

 

New Scott Hirsch album out today and it’s one of the best I’ve heard this year. If you are a HGM fan and enjoy that blend of country/soul/folk/gospel/rock that MC Taylor pulls off so well, then Scott’s stuff would be right up your alley as well.

 

Looks like a holiday album is on the way.

 

Even though Phil isn’t with HGM anymore I assume most people who are familiar with his work is bc of his time with this band so it felt like the most appropriate place to post about his new record. The new album is out today. It’s a solo improv piano album and it’s incredibly beautiful stuff. Highly recommend it.

 

Seeing these guys tonight! Always excited to see one of the best bands out there again.