Hiss Golden Messenger - Quietly Blowing ItI went looking for peace, says songwriter M. C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger about his new album Quietly Blowing It, on Merge Records. Its not exactly a record about the state of the worldor my worldin 2020, but more a retrospective of the past five years of my life, painted in sort of impressionistic hues. Maybe I had the presence of mind when I was writing Quietly Blowing It to know that this was the time to go as deep as I needed to in order to

This is Wire at their most compressed yet propulsive

After periods of difficulty

some recorded during sound checks where the rest of band are heard enjoying his playing

they’re making their own

WILL YOU SPEAK THIS WORD: DOME IV was released on the Norwegian Uniton label in May 1983

The session

“Josef K were The Sound of Young Scotland

” The songs for Home Time were written over a three-year period but recorded quickly

the music consisted of innovative arrangements strongly inspired by classical music

founding frontman Stewart Anderson

unpredictably quixotic exploration of what Hadreas calls ‰ÛÏan underlying rage that has slowly been growing since ten and has just begun to bubble up‰۝

Full eight-piece band touring Europe in Spring 2020