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I've been listening to Iron & Wine a lot lately, what do you guys think of it? I didn't like that he showed up on the Garden State soundtrack... but I guess you can't win 'em all.
The song "Faded From The Winter" is a highlight for me, and for some reason it reminds me of Altman's "McCabe & Mrs. Miller."
I've got both his albums as well. The Garden State thing doesn't affect me or my appreciation for Iron & Wine at all. It wasn't even an album song on there.
"Faded From The Winter" is undoubtedly a highlight. I think of it as a sister song to "Upward Over The Mountain." "Faded" speaks of a father, and "Upward" speaks about a mother. Those two stick out for me, and I think for lots of others as well.
Our Endless Numbered Days is also quite a good album, with "Fever Dream" and "Sodom, South Georgia" as highlights for me. But there are lots of great songs on there. The higher-fi sound works better, I think, unlike other bands where low-hi is their hook.
But yeah, Iron & Wine is great. Great writing music, as well.
i really like Cinders and Smoke
I love Iron & Wine!
I bought Our Endless Numbered Days based on the strength of one song, Naked As We Came.
He has two songs in In Good Company, too.
His new EP comes on on the 22nd, Woman King, or something like that.
I hear he plays electric on it.
i bought Endless Numbered Days after seeing him on Carson Daly's show playing Naked As We Came. several of the songs seem a bit too redundant. i also got Sufjan Stevens' Seven Swans around that time and I just like Sufjan a lot more. i haven't heard the first I&W album though.
I got into him after Tarnation, which features Naked As We Come quite prominently. The video for that song is lovely, too.
Fun fact: did you know he's a cinematography teacher when he's not a musician?
I knew that he initially wanted to be a filmmaker, yes. I think I probably heard that he taught as well, but I didn't know if he was still doing that or not.
Quote from: matt35mmI knew that he initially wanted to be a filmmaker, yes. I think I probably heard that he taught as well, but I didn't know if he was still doing that or not.
I think he did quit, wants to quit, or is planning on quitting the teaching thing.
It's amazing that the music was only a hobby of his.
I believe he does all his own music videos, if I'm not mistaken.
His tour schedule's being released and it looks like I might be seeing him in Atlanta! :)
http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/i/iron-and-wine/woman-king.shtml
well, pitchfork gave the new ep a good review
(if that means anything to you)
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Now that's Freudian.
i'm a big fan... i have all of their cd's and ep's.
Woman King is the type of album that I don't mind having every song stuck in my head. and that happens with some regularity.
I bought The Creek Drank the Cradle a few months back and have been listening to it steadily. I knew I liked the album when I first listened to it..."Lion's Mane" and "Faded From the Winter" were two songs that really pulled me in. They were so beautifully written. At the time, the rest of the album just blurred together in my mind. Now, however, I have grown quite fond of the entire album, an intimate epic of life and relationships, told through the ache and texture of Sam Beam's voice and minimal production.
Do his hands in your hair
feel a lot like a thing
you believe in
or a bit like a bird
stealing bread
out from under your nose
Simply on the strength of lyrics like that, I am excited to see what Sam Beam has planned for Iron & Wine. Creek has been enjoyable and I feel I have digested that enough to tackle Our Endless Numbered Days. I know he takes a different approach in terms of production and instrumentation...I look forward to hearing the results. (I imagine the EP's are nice as well.)
has in the reins leaked? if so , where?
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here you go, buddy
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you rock, meatwad.
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how do you guys like this? in my opinion its just as solid as woman king. i like the song with the word "fuck" in it. i cant remember the name of it, but its good.
i just bought two tickets to the december 6th iron & wine and calexico show at webster hall (manhattan) -- i'm gonna ask the next beautiful girl i see if she wants to go with me.
ps- can somebody e-mail me or host the new album please?
just got it. the spanish on the first track is a lil awkward, but the parts that are more iron and wine than calexico are simply wonderful. i really, really dig Sixteen Maybe Less, and Dead Man's Will
He's playing at the Variety in Atlanta on Dec16.
I'll be there.
Who's with me?
i just saw iron & wine with calexico
i was directly in the center, leaning up against the front of the stage... just a monitor and the mic stand between me and sam beam.... maybe 4 feet total. it was great.
they played all of In the Reins and most of Woman King, and a couple tracks from Our Endless Numbered Days. nothing from Creek Drank the Cradle. ... calexico played a set of their own stuff. that was good, but i don't know what was what. iron and wine did a set of iron and wine only stuff. that was great.
highlights were the electric rock version of Jezebel, the electric bluegrass version of Gray Stables, a ridiculously powerful jammed version of He Lies in the Reins, and when he played the first bar of Such Great Hights and then stopped and laughed. Woman King was also very intense, but it was at a slower tempo than on the album.
good show, except that there were a couple unnecessary opening acts.
did you see them at webster hall?
yep. ran into some tische kids too.