Έρχεται Νέο Album
Από Τον Iron & Wine
(Ιδού Και Το Πρώτο Δείγμα)
Ο Iron & Wine, κατά κόσμον Sam Beam έχει καλά νέα, αφού ανακοίνωσε πως στις 25 Αυγούστου θα κυκλοφορήσει νέο album με τίτλο "Beast Epic". Έχει να κυκλοφορήσει δική του δουλειά από το 2013, τότε που μας χάρισε το απίστευτο album "Ghost On Ghost", ωστόσο το 2015 συνεργάστηκε με τον Ben Bridwell στον δίσκο "Sing Into My Mouth" που περιείχε διασκευές και το 2016 ακουλούθησε ακόμα μία συνεργασία με την Jesca Hoop (Love Letter For Fire).
Χωρίς χρονοτριβή μας χάρισε και ένα κομμάτι από το "Best Epic", λέγεται "Call It Dreaming" και συνοδεύεται από video clip. Σκηνοθέτης είναι ο
J. Austin Wilson και στο βίντεο ο Sam ανεβαίνει στην καρότσα ενός αγροτικού που κινείται χωρίς οδηγό, ενώ στη διαδρομή η παρέα αυξάνεται. Σχετικά με το τραγούδι τώρα, ήπιο, σε χαλαρώνει, όχι κάτι που θα σου πάρει τα μυαλά αλλά σίγουρα το ακούς ευχάριστα. Πρώτο δείγμα θετικό. Μακάρι το album να αποτελέσει καλή συντροφιά για όσους θα είναι διακοπές τέλη Αυγούστου. Παρακάτω μπορείτε να δείτε το tracklist του "Best Epic" και τις σκέψεις του ίδιου του Sam.
01 Claim Your Ghost
02 Thomas County Law
03 Bitter Truth
04 Song in Stone
05 Summer Clouds
06 Call It Dreaming
07 About a Bruise
08 Last Night
09 Right for Sky
10 The Truest Stars We Know
11 Our Light Miles
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. In hindsight, both The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002) and Our Endless Numbered Days (2004) epitomize a reflective and confessional songwriting style (although done with my own ferocious commitment to understatement, of course.) 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.
I’ve been fortunate to get to play with some very talented musicians over the years who are both uniquely intuitive and also expressive in exciting ways. This group was no different. We spent about two weeks recording and mixing but mostly laughing at The Loft in Chicago.
To be honest, I’ve named this record BEAST EPIC mostly because it sounds really fucking cool! However, with that said and perhaps to be completely honest, “a story where animals talk and act like people” sounds like the perfect description for the life of any of us. If not that, then it’s at least perfect for any group of songs I’ve ever tried to make. I hope you enjoy it."
