Iron & Wine - 'Ghost On Ghost'
Continuing in the same FM radio-friendly vein as 2011's 'Kiss Each Other Clean', former earnest acoustic-type Sam Beam's fifth album sees him taking further, grander steps in the shiny loafers of a cheesy 1970s crooner with a fondness for...
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (4AD)
Sam Beam is a man of many guises: from the fey troubadour who gave us the heartbreaking serenade of ‘Jezebel’ , to the über political beast that vented his frustrations on album ‘The Shepherd’s Dog’ . The Biblical references are...
Album review: Iron And Wine
Two years after Iron And Wine unleashed their socio-political beast ‘The Shepherd’s Dog’ comes this reminder of the delicate charm and dexterity of unlikely alt.folk hero Sam Beam. Stripped of the adventurous calypso-fused elements of its...
Iron And Wine: 'The Shepherd’s Dog'
Forget about its dodgy foreign policy and vacuous celebs, people like Sam ‘Iron & Wine’ Beam are what America is really about. This is multi-layered eclectic pop, dipped in folk, country and rock. Joey Burns and Paul Niehaus from Calexico take...
Iron & Wine : Our Endless Numbered Days
Sam Beam - he is both Iron and Wine - is unusual, to say the least. Born and raised in the Latino-heavy sunshine state of Florida, he has somehow resisted the temptation to bang out potty-mouthed, super-heavy Miami bass and is, instead, the...
