{"id":27468,"date":"2017-06-09T06:50:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27468"},"modified":"2017-06-09T12:47:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T20:47:58","slug":"music-warmer-than-blood-check-out-iron-wines-new-song-call-it-dreaming-off-upcoming-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-06\/music-warmer-than-blood-check-out-iron-wines-new-song-call-it-dreaming-off-upcoming-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Warmer Than Blood: Check Out Iron & Wine’s New Song “Call It Dreaming” Off Upcoming Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The past twelve months have been halcyon music days for West Coast fans of Iron & Wine\u00a0<\/strong>and its leader Sam Beam<\/strong>. During that time, Beam<\/strong> has passed through these parts performing live at least three times, once with Jesca Hoop<\/strong> in support of their\u00a0mesmerizing\u00a0Love Letter for Fire\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>album, and twice while getting back-to-basics with stirring solo outings. And Beam hasn’t otherwise just been lolling around, having managed to release a covers album with Band of Horse’s Ben Bridwell<\/strong> and release additional Archive<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0recordings. And if that weren’t enough, we now know Beam has been laboring on a proper new Iron & Wine<\/strong> album, entitled\u00a0Beast Epic<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0that will be released on Sub Pop<\/strong> on August 25th (the ensemble’s first since 2013’s fine Ghost On Ghost<\/strong><\/em> album).<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>To give a feel for the new beast, Iron & Wine<\/strong>\u00a0has given us the album’s Call It Dreaming<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0single in the form of a heart-and-blood-warming video directed by J. Austin Wilson<\/strong>. Check it out below, followed by the new album’s tracklist, the band’s announced tour dates (with some great openers) and Call It Dreaming’s<\/strong><\/em> lyrics. We can’t wait for Beast Epic<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n

You can pre-order\u00a0the new album HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Beam<\/strong>\u00a0shared a rare missive regarding the new album:<\/p>\n

“I must confess that I\u2019ve always shied away from album introductions citing the usual \u201cdancing to architecture\u201d cop out. Speaking to their own work is uncomfortable for many artists, but I\u2019ve made a new album called Beast Epic which is important to me and I wanted to take a moment to talk about why. I\u2019ve 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\u2019m happy to say that it\u2019s my fourth for Sub Pop Records.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a warm and serendipitous time to be reuniting with my Seattle friends because I feel there\u2019s 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\u2019re constantly approaching, leaving or returning to something totally unexpected or startlingly familiar. The rite of passage is an image I\u2019ve returned to often because I feel we\u2019re 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\u2019ve collected new experiences to draw from. Where the older songs painted a picture of youth moving wide-eyed into adulthood\u2019s violent pleasures and disappointments, this collection speaks to the beauty and pain of growing up after you\u2019ve already grown up. For me, that experience has been more generous in its gifts and darker in its tragedies.<\/p>\n

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\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I\u2019ve named this record BEAST EPIC mostly because it sounds really fucking cool! However, with that said and perhaps to be completely honest, \u201ca story where animals talk and act like people\u201d sounds like the perfect description for the life of any of us. If not that, then it\u2019s at least perfect for any group of songs I\u2019ve ever tried to make. I hope you enjoy it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n