It is rare that one album artists create a small review of the species, including in the context of historical overview. Modern CD or link to one of the era, often one artist or trend currently prevailing. Or, although it happens less and less - setting new music tracks. The new album Iron and Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean does not specify the new path, but it is on record of what the folk best. If
album "Kiss Each Other Clean" took the form of a book - it would be a rather large dose of information about the history of folk music. Sam Beam reaches the roots already in the early years of 1960 - the American country-folk, somewhere zawadzając of The Shadows, following the path of Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, especially Harrison, guided more by Neil Young, to more contemporary, like Damien Rice, Joanna Newsom, ending with the Fleet Foxes. It is hard to accuse Beam of widespread use of any of them, so I called the board a review of country music-folk. "Kiss Each Other Clean" is above all a beautiful song. Full of peace, harmony, wisdom and cost. There will be no surprise that the dominant acoustic guitar, lazy, flowing gently like a harp in "Godless Brother In Love" (such as reaching for Joanna Newsom), and sometimes more alive, in "Glad Man Singing" (Somewhere in the middle of the audible echo of "The Bends" Radiohead).
Best supplement capsule folk are trumpets, saxophones and complete as a few strings. They give the album another face - jazz, funk, even at times - "Big Hand Burned." The essence of funk-jazz album is the last jump, 7-minute "Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me", hailed by some as the song years before. Extreme departure from what he does simply Beam. The first half is quite jazzy jungle, a mixture of saxophones, trumpets and funky accessories. For this luscious bass, excellent drums, and after one and a half minutes there is a strong electric guitar. When all the spin with a maximum intensity of the components listed above, after two and a half minutes following a moment of relaxation and is Beam, which repeats Become, Become, is a guitar and drums. For nearly five minutes Beam repeats Become a guitar and drums surrounds us with the consequence of a swarm of mosquitoes. The result is that after 6 minutes, I can not hear it anymore. A pity, because the fantastic, the first part although it could be extended to 4 minutes ... Another departure from the pop roots "Walking Far From Home", a reference to Wilco. So unusual CD begins and ends so unusual. Maybe not by coincidence.
Iron & Wine for sure that it is no longer strictly a folk band, as it once was. Can not be called "Kiss Each Other Clean" breakthrough, because as I said, it is more a historical feature. What's the most comforting - on the album are simply great, unobtrusive songs, most of the simpler pieces, with several more complex. All the songs of life combines the wisdom contained in the texts, a certain nostalgia and longing. Great fall chorus ("Tree By The River"). Very interesting sound Jamaican and African accretions, elements of dub and reggae. If we add everything reasonable in terms of length album - it remains for me nothing more than a five-deserved draw, what I am doing.
Rating: 5
Issued by: Martin Barela
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