★★★★★
Spurred by the reception to of "Southern Grammar" from last year's EP, Hiss Golden Messenger front man M.C. Taylor chose to take a live version of the song -- performed for Philadelphia radio station WXPN -- and package it up with some B-sides to show some different sides to the project's alt-country vibes...
- exclaim.ca
2015-02-19
★★★★★
When Hiss Golden Messenger made their network television debut back in November, David Letterman introduced the band as a duo, but what appeared onstage looked more like a collective: a double-digit lineup that included bass, guitar, back-up singers, a bass sax, brass, and a particularly excitable drummer. The group's membership has always been in flux: It began life as a duo (M.C. Taylor and Scott Hirsch), then shrank to a solo project, then ballooned into a full band...
- pitchfork.com
2015-02-02
★★★★★
Another step forward for this stately, down-home duo?... Easing yourself into "Lucia", the opener on Lateness Of Dancers, the fifth album from M. C. Taylor and Scott Hirsch's Hiss Golden Messenger, is a comforting, comfortable experience - even if the organ riff and drum tattoos might, momentarily, have you flashing back on the J. Geils Band's "Centrefold"...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2014-10-28
★★★★★
Hiss Golden Messenger has occupied a strange place in the folk/country scene for some time. The group's spare arrangements and fragile melodies recall anti-folk stalwarts like Bill Callahan, but M.C. Taylor and Scott Hirsch have always had a fondness for arrangements that allow the group's songs to flourish. Their take on these traditions has always been rich and devoted without falling into slavish obsession with tradition...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-10-21
★★★★★
Based on his previous releases as , MC Taylor might not have been the first name you'd put on your party invite list. An introspective, lo-fi country gathering perhaps, but not the man that would come to mind when trying to think of someone to get the party started. might just be the record to make you reconsider that...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-09-12
★★★★★
Label:
Merge Records
Release Date:
15/09/2014
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Based on his previous releases as Hiss Golden Messenger, MC Taylor might not have been the first name you'd put on your party invite list. An introspective, lo-fi country gathering perhaps, but not the man that would come to mind when trying to think of someone to get the party started.
Lateness Of Dancers might just be the record to make you reconsider that...
- drownedinsound.com
2014-09-13
★★★★★
Though North Carolina-based MC Clarke and his longtime recording partner and collaborator Scott Hirsch have been making music since they were 17, it's the creeping reality of fatherhood and letting go of the past that informs their magnificent fifth album, a disc of such staggering spiritual depth that the title track itself is almost too much to bear...
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-09-11
★★★★★
Album No 5 from Hiss Golden Messenger - and their first for the celebrated indie label Merge - is, like its predecessor Haw, largely a full-band affair, moving away from the acoustic country-folk of their early records, though not dispensing with it entirely. On Mahogany Dread, the combination of MC Taylor's Dylanesque voice, the despairing lyrics, the gently rippling guitars, and the mid-pace propulsion of the rhythm section puts the music within waving distance of the War on Drugs's cosmic...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-09-12
★★★★★
?????????? M.C. Taylor, better known as Hiss Golden Messenger, is one to watch. On his follow up to last year's incredibly sparse and haunting Bad Debt, he's lightened his load a bit to radiant results. Lateness of Dancers finds Taylor embracing a more sun-drenched country sound than we're used to from him. Inspired by the works of a number of late greats in Southern literature, Dancers is truly heavenly, warm, inviting and smooth...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2014-09-12
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