IRON & WINE
“It’s easy to be insecure about what you do because we’re all very self-conscious. We like to destroy things. It’s easy to put something out there and start to criticize it, but it’s harder to let go and make things without any sense of awareness about it.”
Job satisfaction is never a concern for Sam Beam. The simplistic joy of musical expression he experienced recording as Iron & Wine for the first time is still the dominant feeling in the studio 15 years later. Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that the vulnerability that marked those first few records is still front and center on his latest album,
Beast Epic
(on Sub Pop).
More recent entries in the Iron & Wine catalog have been marked by sonic experimentation, but returns to an artist laid bare—questions without answers, notices of beauty amid painful experiences. is anchored in who Beam has always been yet features a lyrical maturity that only comes after a
