I'm People
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Label: Chrysalis Frontline
Release Date: 1st May
MC Taylor has a gift, his music has a buttery sweet joy to it, personally it fills me my cup right up with hope but always with just the right amount of salty bite.
The brand-new album from Hiss Golden Messenger and the first release with Chrysalis Records.
I'm People is a vivid, deeply human album born from a period of rupture, renewal, and vast American wandering. Written across Bolinas, the North Carolina Piedmont, and a Santa Fe motel room, the record traces the artist's search for clarity through landscapes both external and internal. These songs move through heartbreak, aging, fatherhood, desire, disillusionment, and the hard-won hope that remains after the spirit has been scraped bare. Produced with Josh Kaufman at Dreamland, a decommissioned church outside Woodstock, the album carries the warmth of musicians playing live in a circle, stained-glass light filtering across guitars, drums, and upright bass. Contributions from Bruce Hornsby, Sam Beam, Marcus King, Sara Watkins, Amy Helm, Eric D. Johnson, and members of Dawes enrich a sound world that feels immediate, vulnerable, and fully alive.
"I'm People is an intensely human record, and so one that needed to feel immediate, vulnerable, and fully dancing; something you could touch, sing along to, know about, recognize, relate with. I know what the record is to me and I bet it's not so dissimilar from what it's about to you, at least in the broad strokes: The heartbreak and exhilaration, the absolute black comedy of being a person on this razor's edge that is America circa 2025. What other choice do we have than to be hopeful?" - MC Taylor on I'm People
In The Middle Of It / Who You Gonna Run To? / Shaky Eyes / Mercy Avenue / I'm People / Seneca (Time is a Mother, Baby / Last Orders / Gabriel / Heavy World / Alright and Then Some / Spirit Cat / Depends on the River / Dynamite Woman by Sir Douglas Quinte / Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival