Describing the Durham, North Carolina-based Hiss Golden Messenger is like trying to grasp a forgotten word: it's always on the tip of your tongue, but hard to speak. Songwriter and bandleader M.C. Taylor's music is at once familiar, yet impossible to categorise. 'Terms of Surrender' follows Taylor's journey through a tumultuous year of trauma and psychological darkness, hoping and working towards redemption and healing, and the conflicting draw of home and movement.