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For 'Thomas County Law,' Iron & Wine's Sam Beam Presides Over His Own Funeral

The gently rendered ballad's video finds frontman Sam Beam decorating a church and giving a eulogy for his own (unattended) funeral.

On August 25, will release , a new album that scales back the densely arranged grandeur of recent records like and . Though nowhere near as harrowingly spare as the bedroom recordings on which Beam first made his name, still feels like a return to roots; to simple, unadorned, plainspoken warmth.

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