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Bandcamp / Buy Sam Beam just sorta stumbled into Iron & Wine. When he moved to Tallahassee to attend graduate school at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts in the late 1990s, writing songs was merely a hobby. It was more like an extension of his filmmaking, and he didn’t think much of the music he did make, at least not until a friend lent him a four-track recorder. Setting his songs to tape and playing them back, Beam could actually hear them for the first time. He started making decisions about structure, lyrics, melodies, arrangements, and vocals. Thro...

New Music Reviews (5/10) KEXP Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from Squid, Bright Green Field (Warp) This British band’s debut full-length is an inventive blend of jittery post-punk with jazz, ambient, funk, prog and other styles. Produced by Dan Darey, the album features a variety of adventurous, sprawling songs combining angular guitars, keyboards, horns, str...

(5 out of 5 stars) "I first heard a few cuts of "The Creek Drank the Cradle" via some MP3s a good friend sent me. Having *no* idea who "Iron & Wine" was, I was immediately taken by the lo-fi, harmonious, hushed vocals, and soft, slow, easy pacing. I swore that this had to be some lost recording from the late 1960's from some unknown progressive (for the 60's) folk/blues/country inspired band. It sounded nice, but I didn't end up listening much for a few weeks. After getting the album and learning it was released late last year (9/2002) inspired me to give the tunes a much closer listen (on...

Gigulate Iron & Wine Announce Unearthed Album Recorded Before Their Debut: Hear “Calm On The Valley” In 2002, before beardy indie-folk became a cliché, Sam Beam broke out in a big way with The Creek Drank The Cradle, his debut album as Iron & Wine. It’s not like those hushed lo-fi home recordings were the first songs Beam ever recorded, though. Today he has announced an unearthed album recorded in the late ’90s, when he was a student at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts.