Iron And Wine Release 'Ghost On Ghost'
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
WEBLINKS:
www.ironandwine.com
www.4ad.com/ironandwine
ENDS