Iron & Wine - Light Verse

 

Limited edition clear w/blue swirl vinyl

Iron & Wine's seventh full-length album

When the pandemic began, and the world shut down, so did the process of creating for Iron & Wine's Sam Beam. In its place was a domesticity that the singer hadn't felt in a long time, and although it was filled with many rewards, making music was not one of them.

The journey back began with a recording session in Memphis to record a handful of Lori McKenna tracks for the EP Lori with friend and producer Matt Ross-Spang.

"Recording has always been my favorite, and that session was an attempt to reconnect with what I love most about making music. I could finally feel the blood coming back into the body and the creative muscles beginning to relax and move again," Beam says.

Soon a series of short tours were booked titled "Back to Basics," which, out of necessity, were solo acoustic shows in smaller venues. They had an unspoken weight to them for Beam and the audiences alike, and also an incredible sense of relief for finally sharing art together and being back to work! A larger tour with Andrew Bird followed in the summer of '22, and Beam was inspired even more by the excitement of collaborating with Bird and his band and the warmth of musical friends.

"By the time I got home, the paralysis had officially passed, and I was finishing lyrics and booking studio time for what would become Light Verse!" he says.

Light Verse arrives April 26, 2024 and is Iron & Wine's seventh full-length overall and fifth for Sub Pop Records. Fashioned as an album that should be taken as a whole, it sounds lovingly handmade and self-assured as a secret handshake. Track by track, its equal parts elegy, kaleidoscope, truth, and dare.

 

 

1. You Never Know

2. Anyone's Game

3. All in Good Time

4. Cutting It Close

5. Taken by Surprise

6. Yellow Jacket

7. Sweet Talk

8. Tears that Don't Matter

9. Bag of Cats

10. Angels Go Home

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