I Love Mystery :: Hiss Golden Messenger on the Hard-Earned Optimism of I’m People

I'm People represents the beginning of a new era for Hiss Golden Messenger. The new project finds songwriter MC Taylor presenting a set of songs dedicated to, as he puts it in the album's biography, "Truth, lies, magic, faith.” It's a potent combo, and I'm People presents Taylor and his collaborators at his most refined, taking all the things that have made Hiss Golden Messenger recordings work so well in the past—country rock shuffles, indomitable boogies, soul and R&B flourishes, and heartland pop—and melting it all down to its core. We caught up with Taylor to discuss the recording, the influence of artists like Curtis Mayfield and Sinéad O'Connor, and the golden age of paranormal AM radio.

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