Iron & Wine - Hen's Teeth - (Loser Edition) - Oxblood vinyl

Iron & Wine - Hen's Teeth - (Loser Edition) - Oxblood vinyl

The experiments in this one were more with genre than with form. For the last couple years one of my go-to’s has been Van Morrisson’s Astral Weeks, that style where jazz musicians play folk music and it blossoms in different ways than folk musicians are normally interested in doing. ‘Singing Saw’ feels like a song that Dock Boggs and Simon & Garfunkel might have done together. ‘Roses’ and ‘In Your Ocean’ are straight forward folk rock, but they build to these apocalyptic endings. ‘Dates and Dead People’ and ‘Defiance, Ohio’ take a lot from Tropicalia, which is some of my favorite music too. I don’t see it as that much different from jazz. All these forms have been in rock music forever.”

Label: Sub Pop

Cat. No. SP1707X

TRACKLIST

1. Roses
2. Paper and Stone
3. Robin's Egg (feat. I'm With Her)
4. Singing Saw
5. In Your Ocean
6. Defiance, Ohio
7. Wait Up (feat. I'm With Her)
8. Grace Notes
9. Dates and Dead People
10. Half Measures