Kiss Each Other Clean by Iron and Wine

Kiss Each Other Clean, the fourth Iron & Wine album, came out on January 25, 2011, through 4AD worldwide and Warner Bros. in the US, and it's another change of direction for Sam Beam. Beam told Spin it was a focused pop record, the kind of early-to-mid-'70s AM radio sound people remember from their parents' car, and that's how it plays: layered, groove-minded arrangements swirling around his soft voice.

The title comes from a line in "Your Fake Name Is Good Enough for Me". "Walking Far from Home" went out first, on CD and 12-inch vinyl for Record Store Day's Black Friday event, and "Tree by the River" was given away as a free download on Beam's website. Paste later ranked the album number 65 among the best indie folk albums. Ghost on Ghost came next.

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