This new Iron and Wine’s song is like nothing you have heard from the indie folk band! ‘Lovers’ Revolution’ was just posted on YouTube and it sound like a sultry jazz-pop number with pulsating saxophones, an animated and smoky piano-bar in the background and Sam Beam’s voice going stronger and stronger over old school R&B backup voices! Just look at the cover of the album, this is sexy-hot stuff! The tune slowly builds up an atmosphere which sounds as familiar as foreign: it seems I have heard this kind of thing before, but am I really listening to an Iron and Wine’s song? It sure will make the band’s fans talk for a long time as I bet no one was expecting this kind of new turn for the delicate folk-pop band.
The song will be featured on Iron and Wine's upcoming new album, ‘Ghost on Ghost’, for which Beam hired top session jazz players such as Kenny Wolleson, Tony Garnier, Curtis Fowlkes, Steve Bernstein, Doug Wieselman, who have performed with the Lounge Lizards over the years, along with Rob Burger, Brian Blade, Briggan Kraus, Maxim Moston, Anja Wood, and Marika Hughes.
I still have to digest the lyrics but lines such as 'How the makers of the medicine will always say you're looking sick', 'or 'And all the fingers that we damaged when all we wanted was a diamond ring' sounds very interesting. Beam declared in a statement that ‘Ghost on Ghost reflects his determination to move beyond the ‘anxious tension’ of the band's last two albums: 2011's ‘Kiss Each Other Clean’ and 2007's ‘The Shepherd's Dog’, and that ‘this record felt like a reward to myself after the way I went about making the last few’.
‘Ghost On Ghost’ will be their first album released on Nonesuch on April 16th.
'Ghost on Ghost' Tracklist
01. “Caught in the Briars”
02. “The Desert Babbler”
03. “Joy”
04. “Low Light Buddy of Mine”
05. “Graces for Saints and Ramblers”
06. “Grass Windows”
07. “Singers and the Endless Song”
08. “Sundown (Back in the Briars)”
09. “Winter Prayers”
10. “New Mexico’s No Breeze”
11. “Lovers’ Revolution”
12. “Baby Center Stage”