The musicians playing on it never broke up or really even formed a band, exactly, but Years to Burn is basically a reunion album. The follow-up to 2005’s In the Reins, Years to Burn, released in June, is the second collaborative album released by Iron & Wine and Calexico. Calexico and Iron & Wine 8 […]
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Chris Bathgate — Salt Year
It’s a mellowing experience, one that makes a sleepy day seem bearable. The folky tunes don’t have an underlying layer of misery that marks Bon Iver’s output, and that’s all the better for just watching life go by on a lazy afternoon. If you’re lazy, you can just put “No Silver” on repeat and drift […]
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Iron & Wine — Kiss Each Other Clean
But those who remember that the same man who wrote “The Trapeze Swinger,” “Naked as We Came” and “Love and Some Verses” is now composing international/ funky/indie/other songs will pretty much hate it. The beautiful piano and acoustic guitar of “Godless Brother in Love” — the tune from “Kiss Each Other Clean” that most resembles […]