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Iron & Wine strikes a warm balance on ‘Beast Epic’
Grace Weissend | Friday, September 1, 2017
Growing out of Samuel Beam’s stripped down, hushed sounds of yore under his “Iron & Wine” moniker, “Beast Epic” is a fitting title for the artist’s most recent project. Yet the album is epic not in its outlandishness, size, or theatricality, but in the way nearly each song manages to envelop the listener with rich,