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Features

The Best Albums of 2007

From tech house to Radiohead and Americana to indie and everything in between, PopMatters picks the best 60 albums of 2007. [21 December 2007]

Reviews

Iron & Wine: Around the Well

Sam Beam is not only one of America's best songwriters, he's also easily one of the most consistent. [29 May 2009]

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It turns out Iron & Wine can rock out with the best of them: the force of it almost knocked me out. [21 April 2008]

Iron & Wine: Boy with a Coin

Appreciating Iron & Wine is a little like conversing with somebody who whispers all the time; you must be ready to concentrate and listen intently, or else you'll miss everything. [6 November 2007]

Iron & Wine: The Shepherd’s Dog

As much for the beautiful distractions conjured by the musicians, the richness and creativity, bells and whistles, The Shepherd’s Dog should one day be regarded for how it reflected its time, timelessly. [27 September 2007]

Iron & Wine / Calexico: In the Reins

This time, in addition to brewing some green tea and donning your favorite bathrobe, you might consider shining up the spurs and lacing up the chaps for this highly successful collaboration. [5 October 2005]

Iron & Wine: Woman King [EP]

Sam Beam and producer Brian Deck continue to experiment in the studio, replacing the sounds of necessity with the sounds of possibility. Woman King is Iron & Wine's most economically expansive set of songs to date. [22 February 2005]

Iron & Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days

Beam’s triumphs are not limited to individual moments, however; Our Endless Numbered Days stuns, sedates, and fills from beginning to end. Iron and Wine (in any combination) have produced an understated of excessive beauty and lyricism.

[1 April 2004]

Iron and Wine: The Sea & the Rhythm

Beam is actually a film professor in Miami Beach, Florida, but his songs resonate with so much artistry, loneliness, and authenticity that it seems that he could easily make a living with his music should he so choose to in the future.

[21 October 2003]

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