![]() When I moved to San Francisco in 1998, many of us hung at a dive called the Uptown at 17th and Capp. Ione has carried some of that stormy spirit with her. The day my daughter was born, there was a huge storm here in the Piedmont of North Carolina the ditches were boiling over with rainwater as my wife and I made our way to the hospital. Aaron Dessner plays the piano here and also on “Terms of Surrender” and it’s really quite gorgeous, I think.Īnother song that I’ve talked a lot about elsewhere. The whole recording was probably finished in 15 minutes. “Is this wicked word too bad to be spoken? You let the heart attack in one taste and it’s broken.” This song was sung one time and that was it. I sing a lot about fathers on this record. This is one of my favorite songs that I’ve recorded as Hiss Golden Messenger. Who was I to deny that? This is a song we did a lot of work on at Sound City so this song reminds me of Los Angeles. It was never as fully-baked as many of the other songs I was writing-many of which didn’t even make it onto the record-but there was a wandering spirit to this tune that was demanding it be on the record. This started as a sketch and stuck with me throughout the period I was writing Terms of Surrender. Anyway, I was standing on this lonely hill at sunset and heard the voices of children and went in and wrote this song very quickly. I realize that hallucinogens were mentioned as part of the process in the last song too. I was staying in a cottage on a big, beautiful, empty hill in Arrington, Virginia, and I was on mushrooms. The first song I wrote that I knew was going to be on Terms of Surrender. But the turmoil that I experienced is, I think, probably universal. I don’t have any interest in lining out Terms of Surrender more than to say it was made during a time of trouble in my life that I’m still sorting out. ![]() So I’m going to try to walk the line here. And as a listener, I want to make my own way into a record, at my own pace. I understand the pressure that demands that every last note be revealed. ![]() An artist releases an album and explains, in great detail, what each song is about, sometimes even footnoting the lyrics. In the last few years, there seems to have been a movement towards total explication and immediate understanding. He said - and I’m sorry if I mangle this badly, Joe - that the path that can be named is not the path. “I was talking to my friend Joe Henry the other night and we were discussing how we’ve both tried, in our separate ways, to make music that is impossible to categorize. In a statement, he tells Consequence of Sound, Sessions took place at Dessner’s Long Pond studio in Upstate New York, Los Angeles’ Sound City, and producer Roger Moutenot’s Haptown in Nashville.Īsked to dig deep into the messages and meanings behind Terms of Surrender, Taylor is careful in his words. To help him realize the music’s full potential, he teamed with regular collaborators Josh Kaufman, Matt McCaughan, and Phil and Brad Cook, as well as new associates Jenny Lewis and The National’s Aaron Dessner. Taylor’s fifth album in just three years.It came together over “a tumultuous year of trauma and psychological darkness” during which Taylor penned upwards of 40 songs. The follow-up to last year’s Virgo Fool is project mastermind M.C. Out via Merge Records, you can stream the entire thing below. Hiss Golden Messenger has today delivered his 11th (!) full-length effort, Terms of Surrender.
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