★★★★★
Release Date: April 16th 2013 A couple years ago, I started getting much into indie-rock/folk, and one band that really stuck out to was folk outfit Iron & Wine; something about Samuel Beam's voice and lyrics absolutely astounded and amazed me. I'll admit, I got into the folk troubadour when 2011's Kiss Each Other Clean came out, and that was a record that was more "experimental" and "expansive" than his other works...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-06-03
★★★★★
Iron & WineGhost on Ghost (Nonesuch) Iron & Wine achieves a rare feat with Ghost on Ghost: an adult contemporary album without cliche or compromise. It's Sam Beam's Graceland, except instead of South Africa, he's moved to North Carolina. The transition has been years in the making. Since the bedroom folk of 2002 debut The Creek Drank the Cradle, Iron & Wine has steadily expanded outward with varying degrees of success, delving into desert Americana (Calexico collaboration In the Reins),...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2013-05-18
★★★★★
Iron and Wine's fifth full-length effort Ghost on Ghost sees Samuel Beam take a large, determined step towards pop music to varying results. An artist of many chapters, Beam's capricious career has crossed genres album to album. From the pure sentiments whispered intimately on 2004's Our Endless Numbered Days to the Mediterranean sprawl of 2007's follow up The Shepherd's Dog, Beam seems inherently Nordic in style and sound...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2013-06-26
★★★★★
My first introduction to the work of Sam Beam and Iron & Wine came back in 2005 with the release of Woman King. At the time I was captivated by the sparse acoustic driven tracks that dominated those early recordings. Each new release since has seen Beam move steadily further and further from that early folky aesthetic. Now five records in, Ghost On Ghost sees Beam's musical journey progress even further, with his most experimental album to date...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-05-06
★★★★★
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- www.nytimes.com
2013-04-30
★★★★★
Sam Beam, the bushy-bearded king of folk otherwise known as Iron And Wine, has gone off the rails and onto the highway. Iron And Wine's first two studio albums, 2002's The Creek Drank The Cradle and 2004's Our Endless Numbered Days, were whispered, love-drenched acoustic affairs, the stuff of a million dreams in woods and fields, and earned the band a devoted following...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
The latest chapter in the singer-songwriter's evolution is a work of immense beauty and scale... Sam Beam has come a long way since introducing himself as a bedroom troubadour of uncommon eloquence on The Creek Drank The Cradle back in 2002. The music of the South Carolina native (a onetime film-studies professor) underwent a metamorphosis on each of his next three albums - Our Endless Numbered Days (2004), The Shepherd's Dog (2007) and Kiss Each Other Clean (2011) - as he progressively...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Devendra Banhart isn't the only one who has seemingly suffered a demotion lately. Like Banhart, Sam Beam, who records under the moniker Iron and Wine, recorded and released an album on the Warner Bros. label following a history of working with major indie labels. (In Banhart's case, his big label debut was 2009's What Will We Be. In Beam's case, it was 2011's Kiss Each Other Clean.) However, both artists now find themselves on Nonesuch, an offshoot of Warner Bros...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
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by RAJ DAYAL
Iron and Wine is the stage name of Sam Beam, and artist who comes equipped with warm, hushed vocals and an imitation-worthy beard. It's easy for casual listeners to place Iron and Wine in the finely crafted box of Folk-inspired, Indie-rock. However, those listeners would be mostly wrong...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2013-04-23
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