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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Iron & Wine - Walking Far From Home [Single]

[Warner Bros, November 26, 2010]

Walking From Far Home is three pieces single from the long-awaited new album Kiss Each Other Clean, arrives January 25. So it's single with two non-CD tracks.

Sam Beam partly left his accoustic sound and he is trying to reach more mainstream areas and audiance but still it's Sam Beam so don't expect some craziness and poppy dull stuff. No chance. This is still Iron & Wine as we know them but closer to The Shepherd's Dog than Our Endless Numbered Days. Add bit of electronic and analog sounds and beats in last Bitting Your Tail, be surprised with featuring smooth marimba and excellent saxes in the middle of Summer In Savannah, discover beautiful hymnic melody supported with Beam's choruses in the first track Walking Far From Home and hear typical Iron & Wine feelings and strong melodies with great lyrics in every tracks and you get new Beam's baby :)

.: 8/10 :.

tracklist > 01 | Walking Far From Home [4:49] 02 | Summer In Savannah [4:03] 03 | Bitting Your Tail [3:41]

Monday, March 03, 2008

Iron & Wine | 27-01-2008 | Live in Paradiso | Amsterodam

I'm happy that I found this concert of my favourite band Iron & Wine in Paradiso, Amsterodam. Because I saw them only as support band to Calexico in Zurich in 2006 but not standalone concert. It was excellent more accustic and intimate but shorter and Sean Beam had not as long hair as this year :-) But i still love his voice and music!

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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Iron & Wine | Shepherd's Dog

[S ub Pop, September 25, 2007]

When I heard Iron & Wine's the second release Our Endless Numbered Days |2004| for the first time I was truly impressed. Sam Beam's hushing and gentle voice sings that beautiful mellodies with touchable lyrics and accoustic sound bewitched me. So I became Sam Beam and Iron & Wine fan. And finally seeing live (with Calexico) came true last year in Zürich. It's simple, it was unforgettable experience for me! :-) The last record form Iron and Wine was the six songs comprising Woman King released in 2005. (I don't count the collaborative In the Reins EP with Calexico)

This year is happy year in music what I love. New Björk, Arcade Fire and these days a new album of Iron & Wine entitled Shepherd's Dog. Release date is 25th September via Sub Pop.

Shepherd's Dog isn't in accoustic way such as previous releases but with rich and carefully structured arangements with a lot of diverse instruments and as said somebody on net "one-guy-in-his-bedroom intimacy was lost." It's true but I don't know if it bad news or not. It depends on each all of us and our moody and preferences. Anyway I like Sam's progress so much. This is a weighty, enveloping album, hugely satisfying and more than repaying close and repeated listens.

"I tried to do it in three weeks, and it ended up being six months, off and on," Beam admits. "It was happenstance that this particular record ended up taking as long; but it was a serendipitous thing for me. I wanted to make this one more of an epic journey."

Tracklisting >