other titles...
- Walking Far From Home
- Me and Lazarus
- Tree By the River
- Monkeys Uptown
- Half Moon
- Rabbit Will Run
- Godless Brother in Love
- Big Burned Hand
- Glad Man Singing
- Your Fake Name is Good Enough For Me
Iron & Wine
Kiss Each Other Clean (2024 Reissue)
Black Cricket Recording Co. (Touch And Go)
With 'Kiss Each Other Clean', Beam and company brought in soft rock smoothness, dub reggae textures, and instruments that hadn’t been featured on previous records.
The vintage synths on “Monkeys Uptown”, the Stevie Wonder funk on “Big Burned Hand,”, the strum and drang of “Walking Far From Home” all give the otherwise very organic-sounding arrangements a welcome cheesy kick. The record also produced the biggest radio single of the bands career with the vintage AM friendly vibes of “Tree by the River”. It was an adventurous period in the career in Iron & Wine and one in which Beam was defying categorization.