Sam Beam is back as Iron & Wine and will release a new album on August 25th.
“Where the older songs painted a picture of youth moving wide-eyed into adulthood’s violent pleasures and disappointments, this collection speaks to the beauty and pain of growing up after you’ve already grown up,” Beam reflects. “For me, that experience has been more generous in its gifts and darker in its tragedies.”
“The sound of Beast Epic harks back to previous work, in a way, as well. By employing the old discipline of recording everything live and doing minimal overdubbing, I feel like it wears both its achievements and its imperfections on its sleeve.”
“Over the years, I’ve enjoyed experimenting with different genres, sonics and songwriting styles and all that travelled distance is evident in the feel and the arrangements here, but the muscles seemed to have relaxed and been allowed to effortlessly do what they do best.”
Call It Dreaming is acting as the lead single for Beast Epic and has an official video directed by J. Austin Wilson.
