℗ 2024 Sub Pop Records
Released | April 26, 2024 |
Duration | 42m 53s |
Record Label | Sub Pop Records |
Genre | Alternative (Singer/Songwriter) |
1.1
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You Never Know
Iron & Wine |
4:50 | |||
1.2
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Anyone's Game
Iron & Wine |
3:49 | |||
1.3
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All in Good Time EXPLICIT
Iron & Wine; Fiona Apple |
4:15 | |||
1.4
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Cutting It Close EXPLICIT
Iron & Wine |
2:59 | |||
1.5
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Taken by Surprise
Iron & Wine |
5:20 | |||
1.6
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Yellow Jacket
Iron & Wine |
3:25 | |||
1.7
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Sweet Talk
Iron & Wine |
3:38 | |||
1.8
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Tears that Don't Matter EXPLICIT
Iron & Wine |
6:53 | |||
1.9
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Bag of Cats
Iron & Wine |
3:23 | |||
1.10
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Angels Go Home
Iron & Wine |
4:21 |
Light Verse is the first full-length Iron & Wine release in over seven years and follows his two Grammy-nominated releases, 2017’s Beast Epic and 2018’s Weed Garden EP.
With Light Verse, Beam’s lyrics once again draw on a series of fictional and personal insights, filled with desperate characters and wide-eyed optimists, offering promise and a dose of heartache, tears and laughter, life and love. It’s also Iron & Wine’s most playful record, with its title reflecting how the songs were born with joy after the heaviness and anxiety of the pandemic. Where Beast Epic and Weed Garden gave air to the disquiet of middle-aged frailty and brokenness, Light Verse’s songs trade that for the focus acceptance can bring. Moment by moment, they delight in being pointed or silly (or both) and attempt beauty over prettiness.
Light Verse musically was shaped by a cast of deep players who brought their own stamp of authenticity to Beam’s vision. Joining were Tyler Chester (keyboards), Sebastian Steinberg (bass), David Garza (guitar), Griffin Goldsmith, Beth Goodfellow, Kyle Crane (all drums/percussion) and Paul Cartwright (strings). A 24-piece orchestra makes an appearance over four tracks and Fiona Apple lent her voice - that miracle that sounds like both a sacrifice and a weapon at the same time - to a duet called “All In Good Time.”
Fashioned as an album that should be taken as a whole, Light Verse sounds lovingly handmade and self-assured as a secret handshake. Track by track, its equal parts elegy, kaleidoscope, truth and dare.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Sub Pop Records Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.51 -0.53 to -0.50 | -15.28 -17.59 to -11.63 | -12.77 -15.30 to -9.40 | 8 6 to 11 | |
1 | You Never Know | -0.52 | -16.60 | -13.5 | 8 |
2 | Anyone's Game | -0.53 | -14.85 | -12.4 | 9 |
3 | All in Good Time | -0.51 | -15.64 | -12.9 | 9 |
4 | Cutting It Close | -0.51 | -14.64 | -12.2 | 8 |
5 | Taken by Surprise | -0.50 | -17.15 | -15.1 | 11 |
6 | Yellow Jacket | -0.50 | -16.33 | -13.4 | 8 |
7 | Sweet Talk | -0.50 | -11.63 | -9.4 | 6 |
8 | Tears that Don't Matter | -0.51 | -12.62 | -9.7 | 6 |
9 | Bag of Cats | -0.50 | -15.77 | -13.8 | 9 |
10 | Angels Go Home | -0.50 | -17.59 | -15.3 | 10 |