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Beast Epic

by Iron & Wine

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Isaiah Russell
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Isaiah Russell Sam Beam's best record. My favorite album of all time. Favorite track: Our Light Miles.
jane willow
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jane willow One of the best records out there. So raw and real with such a refreshing live sound. Nothing about this record is perfect, but that makes it all the better! Favorite track: About a Bruise.
Rich Grula
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Rich Grula The best Iron & Wine record for the uninitiated. Glorious, relaxed playing, string songs and a sense of humor that often peeks through. Favorite track: Thomas County Law.
Alice Nicholls
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Alice Nicholls "Tenderness to you..." Favorite track: About a Bruise.
Timothy Kuenzli
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Timothy Kuenzli You! have grown, developed, experimented, and enhanced my life with your currage to show yourself truly and clearly in your work. Thank you. i have grown and developed with you. your art has been a part of my life and it would not be the same wothout the calming, charming, and original music.

to describe this album as full circle is short sighted. i cannot express exactly how i feel about your return to the roots of your music, but i love with the results of this album. Favorite track: Last Night.
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The Deluxe 2xLP version will be on red & blue vinyl with alternate artwork, two bonus tracks from the 'Beast Epic' recording sessions along with three home recorded demos, and will have an etching on side D. The digital download that comes with the deluxe 2xLP will also include the 5 bonus tracks found on the 2nd LP. The bonus tracks are 1. Hearts Walk Anywhere, 2. Kicking the Old Rain, 3. About a Bruise (demo), 4. Claim a Ghost (demo), 5. Summer Clouds (demo).

The black vinyl single LP, CD, cassette, and digital versions will all come with a digital download of the full album, but will *not* include the bonus tracks that come with the deluxe 2xLP package.

credits

released August 25, 2017

"I must confess that I’ve always shied away from album introductions citing the usual "dancing to architecture" cop out. Speaking to their own work is uncomfortable for many artists, but I’ve made a new album called Beast Epic which is important to me and I wanted to take a moment to talk about why. I’ve been releasing music for about fifteen years now and I feel very blessed to have put out five other full lengths, many EPs and singles, a few collaborations with people much more talented than myself, and made contributions to numerous movie scores and soundtracks. This is my sixth collection of new Iron & Wine material and I’m happy to say that it’s my fourth for Sub Pop Records.

"It’s a warm and serendipitous time to be reuniting with my Seattle friends because I feel there’s a certain kinship between this new collection of songs and my earliest material, which Sub Pop was kind enough to release.

“I have been and always will be fascinated by the way time asserts itself on our bodies and our hearts. The ferris wheel keeps spinning and we’re constantly approaching, leaving or returning to something totally unexpected or startlingly familiar. The rite of passage is an image I've returned to often because I feel we’re all constantly in some stage of transition. Beast Epic is saturated with this idea but in a different way simply because each time I return to the theme I’ve collected new experiences to draw from. 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. 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 traveled 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 (read full artist statement over here).”

- Sam Beam

Beast Epic was written and produced by Sam Beam. It was recorded and engineered by Tom Schick at the Loft in Chicago in July 2016 and January 2017, and mastered by Richard Dodd in Nashville, Tennessee. The musicians who played on the album include longtime Iron & Wine collaborators Rob Burger (keys), Joe Adamik (percussion, drums), and Jim Becker (guitar, banjo, violin, mandolin), along with bassist Sebastian Steinberg (Soul Coughing and Fiona Apple), and Chicagoan Teddy Rankin Parker (cello)

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