Iron And Wine Release 'Ghost On Ghost'
Following 2011’s Kiss Each Other Clean, which debuted at number two on the US Billboard chart, Ghost on Ghost is to be the fifth studio album from Austin-based Iron and Wine aka Sam Beam.
While Rolling Stone said of Kiss Each Other Clean that “pop music hadn’t seen anything like it since the heyday of Cat
Stevens,” and Pitchfork said it “more closely resembles the lush, gold-toned singer songwriter records of the late 60s
and early 70s — Astral Weeks, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” Beam felt it time to move from what he called the “anxious
tension” from this record and his previous one (The Shepherd’s Dog). “This record felt like a reward to myself after the
way I went about making the last few,” he says.
Recorded in New York and produced by Beam’s longtime associate Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Califone, Fruit Bats), helping
achieve Beam’s vision was a group of stellar musicians including Rob Burger of Tin Hat Trio, Steve Bernstein, Tony
Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, and Briggan Krauss of Sex Mob, jazz drummer Brian Blade, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes of the Jazz
Passengers, bassist Tony Garnier (Bob Dylan's band), cellist Marika Hughes, Maxim Moston and Doug Wieselman of Antony
and the Johnsons, and Anja Wood. Burger (Tin Hat Trio) has worked with Beam intermittently through the years and handled
arrangements for strings and horns on Ghost on Ghost.
For the album’s cover, Beam, who is also a visual artist, chose an image from the series Private Views by noted
photographer Barbara Crane.
'Ghost on Ghost' will be released April 12th 2013 via 4AD/Rhythmethod.
FORMATS:
CD – CAD 3306CD
LP – CAD 3306
TRACKLISTING:
1. Caught in the Briars
2. The Desert Babbler
3. Joy
4. Low Light Buddy of Mine
5. Graces for Saints and Ramblers
6. Grass Windows
7. Singers and the Endless Song
8. Sundown (Back in the Briars)
9. Winter Prayers
10. New Mexico’s No Breeze
11. Lovers’ Revolution
12. Baby Center Stage
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