Iron & Wine - Monkeys UptownAlbum: Kiss Each Other Clean [2011]
a lil' somethin' to get everyone excited about the forthcoming iron & wine record. as sam beam progresses towards the release of his sixth album, it's apparent that he's embracing the bigger sound that highlighted 2007's "the sheperd's dog". beam and co. take another leap away from the lo-fi, one-guy-in-a-bedroom beginnings of the group and this song features a large cast of musicians that blanket the songs with a wide array of intrumentation. like most iron & wine albums, it'll probably make a case for album of the year. well played.
