Latest Release
- APR 26, 2024
- 10 Songs
- The Shepherd's Dog · 2007
- Our Endless Numbered Days · 2004
- Light Verse · 2024
- Around the Well (Bonus Track Version) · 2003
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Version] · 2011
- Around the Well (Bonus Track Version) · 2002
- Time After Time - Single · 2016
- Our Endless Numbered Days · 2004
- The Shepherd's Dog · 2007
- The Shepherd's Dog · 2007
Essential Albums
- On his second album as Iron & Wine, Sam Beam’s love for Elliott Smith hides in plain sight, from the hushed vocals in “Fever Dream” to the homey warmth suffusing “Each Coming Night.” But what makes Our Endless Numbered Days so great is how he filters these qualities through earthy folk sounds belying his Southern heritage. Beam isn’t the first indie singer/songwriter to drop in prickly banjos (“Teeth in the Grass”), nor weepy slide guitars (“Love and Some Verses”), yet few have proven as intoxicating.
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- 2017
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Artist Playlists
- Sam Beam reached great heights thanks to a soundtrack—and hasn't looked back since.
- Hushed, intimate acoustic pop for the 21st century.
- An indie-folk study on the profound power of subtlety.
- Delicate folk from some of songwriting's most sensitive souls.
Compilations
About Iron & Wine
Singer-songwriter Sam Beam—aka Iron & Wine—wrote and recorded songs in his basement while working as a professor of film and cinematography at the University of Miami. ∙ Beam named himself Iron & Wine after a protein supplement that he came across in a Florida general store. ∙ Sub Pop signed him after buddy Ben Bridwell, frontman for Band of Horses, passed along early Iron & Wine demos to the indie powerhouse label. ∙ Iron & Wine’s 2002 debut studio LP—the spare, folky The Creek Drank the Cradle—was one of Pitchfork’s Top 200 albums of the 2000s. ∙ Kristen Stewart chose “Flightless Bird, American Mouth” to play during the scene from the film Twilight in which Bella and Edward dance at the prom. ∙ In 2011, the ’70s-pop-flavored Kiss Each Other Clean, was a No. 2 hit on the Billboard 200 chart. ∙ Beam recorded 2015’s Sing Into My Mouth with Ben Bridwell, covering songs by artists who inspired them both.
- GENRE
- Alternative