First Listen: Calexico And Iron & Wine, 'Years To Burn'
Sam Beam and Calexico's first album-length collaboration since 2005 feels most of all like the work of a complete, cohesive band — a group of old friends who've gathered to sing in a single voice.
's Sam Beam started out crafting dark and delicate folk-pop songs in his bedroom, releasing them as barren solo whispers. But in the years since, his scope has expanded drastically. He can still command attention on his own, but Beam has spent the last decade or so recording and ' Ben Bridwell. In 2005, as Beam's early solo work was starting to give way to something more extravagantly fleshed out, he released an album called that signaled a newer, more wide-open direction.
