Calexico / Iron & Wine – Years To Burn

Iron & Wine's Sam Beam started out crafting dark and delicate folk-pop songs in his bedroom, releasing them as barren solo whispers. In 2005, as Beam's early solo work was starting to give way to something more extravagantly fleshed out, he released an album called 'In the Reins' that signaled a newer, more wide-open direction.

'In the Reins' seven songs paired Beam with the atmospheric and accomplished Arizona rock band Calexico, whose desert-inspired work simmers with the heat and horns of the American Southwest. The album became a highlight of both artists' catalogs, and Beam has popped up for guest spots on a couple of Calexico records since, and now, 14 years later, he and Calexico have gathered for an album-length sequel, appropriately titled 'Years to Burn'. The new set finds Sam Beam, John Convertino, Joey Burns and members of the extended Calexico and Iron & Wine casts at their loose-limbed best. (NPR)

Tracklist: 

What Heaven's Left
Midnight Sun
Father Mountain
Outside El Paso
Follow The Water
The Bitter Suite
Pájaro
Evil Eye
Tennessee Train
Years To Burn
In Your Own Time