Hiss Golden Messenger has announced a new album, Jump For Joy. In the past couple years, the project’s mastermind MC Taylor has been one-half of Revelators Sound System and released a Christmas album; this is his proper follow-up to 2021’s Quietly Blowing It. His new one is described as “a sort of epistolary,” songs written between Taylor and an imagined alias named Michael Crow, a young and hopeful drummer. “The tunes on Jump For Joy were composed in free moments throughout 2022, a year during which Hiss was on the road more or less constantly,” Taylor said...