Hiss Golden Messenger Announces New Album ‘I’m People’ & U.S. Tour Dates

Hiss Golden Messenger — North Carolina-based singer-songwriter MC Taylor — will release a new album, I’m People, on May 1 through Chrysalis Records. The album’s announcement arrived with the lead single “In The Middle Of It” and a fresh batch of tour dates supporting the pending record.

Taylor wrote the 12 songs on I’m People in New Mexico, California and North Carolina. The follow-up to 2023’s Jump For Joy was co-produced by Taylor and Josh Kaufman, who also provided various instrumentation. Other contributors include Bruce Hornsby, Marcus King, JT Bates, Cameron Ralston, Amy Helm, Matt Douglas, Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam, I’m With Her’s Sara Watkins, Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson and Dawes’ Griffin Goldsmith and Taylor Goldsmith.

“I wanted the record to feel the way that upstate place feels, deep in the pocket, a place of poetry, earth and sky and mountains,” Taylor said of Dreamland, the former church turned recording facility near Woodstock, New York where the album was made. “A place where a lot of my favorite music has come from.”

Taylor further elaborated on the forthcoming LP, stating:

“The songs on I’m People are about running towards and away from things, about reasonable and realistic hope and expectations, about having babies, getting older, love and lust and luck and music. They are songs about solitude and heartbreak and poverty of the spirit, and maybe community as some kind of antidote for these particular types of sicknesses.

“Shedding old skin. Mystery as a beautiful necessity. My grandmother Lucy’s Cadillac, filled with cigarette smoke, Conway Twitty singing ‘Slow Hand.’ The lightning fields outside Santa Rosa, NM, midnight.

“Late nights drinking wine, running wild, bondage, fealty, devotion, seeing and being seen, owning and being owned. My wife, my children, summertime in the mountains, wild roses climbing the fence, a peaceful mind, rummaging through scrap heaps of the heart, breaking and making and breaking again. To dust. Truth, lies, magic, faith.”

Hiss Golden Messenger will embark on a full band tour supporting I’m People across the United States in September, October and November. Tickets go on sale on Friday, February 13.

Tap below to watch the lyric video for the single, “In The Middle Of It,” and scroll on for ticketing links and additional Hiss Golden Messenger tour information.

I’m People Tracklist

1. In The Middle Of It
2. Who You Gonna Run To?
3. Shaky Eyes
4. Mercy Ave
5. I’m People
6. Seneca (Time Is A Mother, Baby)
7. Last Orders
8. Gabriel
9. Heavy World
10. Alright
11. Spirit Cat
12. Depends on the River