Hiss Golden Messenger - Bad Debt

Hiss Golden Messenger - Bad DebtM. C. Taylor recorded this spiritually devastating, austere antecedent to the widely celebrated Hiss Golden Messenger albums Haw (2013) and Poor Moon (2011) direct to a portable cassette recorder at the kitchen table of his pine entwined home in rural Piedmont, NC in 2010. It was the dead of winter and the pit of the financial crisis, a moment when the dire ramifications of debt in it's economic, political, and personal senses had assumed a rank

Purple Drip creeps right in with a drippy rising high

Cozy up with this sweet 7" featuring Belinda Carlisle

This clear 2LP pressing provides superior sound quality

While a far cry from his days recording and working as a producer at Abbey Road - there's something undeniably special and honest about this album that will leave you wanting more

thundering percussion

"but now I'm definitely less afraid of being gentle

thanks to it's melancholic tones and melodies

It begins with an elliptical little electric-piano hook by McNeal

art-damaged rock and pop music

while upholding a powerful

White Heat

into classic Cass McCombs insanity on "Local Boy