"Kiss each other Clean" is the first album, which is easy to like and easy to listen to, so that it fully meets Sam beam's intention to enact "early to mid-developed FM, radio-friendly music" (closing track, "Your Fake name is Good Enough for Me" is an exception).
All of the items that made "the Shepherd's Dog" Great album on this one too, but Sam beam's gone further and deeper exploring and implementing eclectic musical influences (for those new to Iron and wine-folk, African and Latin rhythms, jazzy saxophone, dub more Americana, well you can hear the influence of the album) in a quiet but still in a sumptuous manner.
Lyrics evolved too; This is about love (a tree by the river), a fairly Social Criticism (Monkeys Uptown) bit of religion here and there; and gravity gradient fields are always witty, wistful and original. Support the Same beam is at his best.
Recently he referred to the album as being his Old Tom Waits: Rain Dogs was to Swordfishtrombones: refining and expanding the sound, which began to blossom at the previous version. Because it is an Iron and wine debut album major label (Warner Bros. records, as says the cable "career open to artists, the label"). Sam Beam has enlisted seven musicians for its U.S. and European tour in which he left the day before the official release of "Kiss each other Clean" (UK-January 24, 25 January), in order to faithfully reproduce the works.
Together with the Decemberists, "The King is Dead", this is the best album of the year, and already as a candidate for this year's top 10 album list.
The Album gets 8/10 by us.
"Kiss each other Clean" track listing:
1. walking away from home
2. Me and Lazarus
3. a tree by the River
4. the Monkeys Uptown
5. Half Moon
6. the Rabbit Will Run
(7) Godless in Love's brother
8. a large burned Hand
9. Happy Singing Man
10. the name of a Fake is weak for me
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