Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle

[Psychocandy]

Do you like Sparklehorse's gentler moments? Does the music of Low or Will Oldham appeal to you? Does the idea of a guy sitting on a stool with just a guitar (and ocassional banjo) singing the most beautiful songs these ears have heard in such a long time appeal to you? Then you should absolutely make it your current mission in life to check out the recent album by Iron & Wine. It's called The Creek Drank The Cradle and I swear this is the birth of a genius. These songs are so fucking fragile and beautiful I think they would crumble and flake if you breathed on them too hard. I am not joking. This guy is channeling some serious spirits. The best thing i've heard in a long, long time (and yes...that includes The White Stripes 'Elephant').

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[bowieee]

Off to investigate I go........

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Wow...

Psychocandy I must say I owe you so much credit for all the great artists you've turned me towards. This is yet another beautiful band that would have swept right under my nose had you not posted something about it. Right now I'm listening to SouthernAnthem194 and Its completely beautiful thank you!

[Psychocandy]

Originally posted by bowieee
Wow...

Psychocandy I must say I owe you so much credit for all the great artists you've turned me towards. This is yet another beautiful band that would have swept right under my nose had you not posted something about it. Right now I'm listening to SouthernAnthem194 and Its completely beautiful thank you!

Yeah. It's all good. Southern Anthem ain't even close to the best song on it though. Fuck, this is the good stuff. Sometimes I get into the sort of frame of mind where I start to believe that nothing new is gonna blind me the way some of the best music has in the past. Then something like this or Elephant or Sixteen Horsepower or The Handsome Family comes along to teach me that I should remain optimistic at all times.

[bowieee]

So far I've downloaded 4 songs all which are unmeasurably good. Looks like Amazon.com will be getting yet more business from me in the near future.

[bowieee]

Bump if your reading this and If your even slightly interested download some songs by these guys you won't regret it... and thats a bowieee guarantee ;)

[Psychocandy]

First and last bump for this thread. Did anyone other than Bowiee check this guy out? If it helps i'd like to add Elliot Smith as another point of reference. I've not been listening to this album for three days solid and it just keeps on gettin' better and better. The talent on display here is jawdropping.

[Romero&Juliet]

This is just FANTASTIC stuff...

I actually downloaded some when I got home late last night.. Oh, my, that bit of smoke was put to good use! Upward Over The Mountain just blew me the fuck away..

The vocals are very composed, the lyrics are GREAT.. what I liked the best was the near primitive kind of recording. It created that old sound that really gives 78s that kind of spooky feel..

EVERYTHING I've heard was solid.. This'll be a good album to get for the summer, I'd say..

Psycho! THANK YOU~!

Where'd you hear about these guys, anyways? Have yopu got connections with the freaking MOB, or what?!?

[Psychocandy]

Originally posted by Romero&Juliet
This is just FANTASTIC stuff...

I actually downloaded some when I got home late last night.. Oh, my, that bit of smoke was put to good use! Upward Over The Mountain just blew me the fuck away..

The vocals are very composed, the lyrics are GREAT.. what I liked the best was the near primitive kind of recording. It created that old sound that really gives 78s that kind of spooky feel..

EVERYTHING I've heard was solid.. This'll be a good album to get for the summer, I'd say..

Psycho! THANK YOU~!

Where'd you hear about these guys, anyways? Have yopu got connections with the freaking MOB, or what?!?

Yeah...it's fucking amazing stuff. One of the most well rounded and effortlessly composed set of songs i've heard in a long, long time.

As for where I hear about these things. Fuck...I read a whole lot of music magazines. I'm the magazine king. I buy a Brazilian rainforest worth of the fuckers every year.

Glad you liked it. Thought it would be up your alley.

I also dowloaded a bootleg of a live radio broadcast from a newsgroup and it's just as good (if not slightly better) than the album.

[Romero&Juliet]

Originally posted by Psychocandy
Yeah...it's fucking amazing stuff. One of the most well rounded and effortlessly composed set of songs i've heard in a long, long time.



yeah, that's what I got out of it too.. its as if These guys had been working at this kind of style for years and years, then BAM.. they crank out an album with such incredible ease..


psst.. psycho.. You should check out Mississippi John Hurt..I'll have to introduce the man over the Tag game.. :)

[bowieee]

Bump for the curious. Psychocandy may have stopped bumping this bad boy but I won't for awhile. I've downloaded pretty much all of the album and I can't stop listening.

[BadCoverVersion]

This stuff is polished (when did these dudes turn up?)...but captivating, delicate and quite fucking brilliant.

I've listened to Lion's Mane, Promise What You Will, Faded From The Winter and Upward Over The Mountain.

Romero is dead on about the "primitive" recording...you can hear every little detail, and the rawness really does add to the charm.

Anyway...these baby's are being whacked on a playlist as I type.

Lovely stuff Psycho.

[SubMethod]

I've pretty much downloaded the entire album and have full intenttions of purchasing it. It has been on constant play for the past two days on my computer. Every time I hear a song again it's as if I'm hearing it for the first time, I hear new things in each one every time I listen to it.

Thanks so much for the reccomendation Psycho.

[SubMethod]

Bump...

Has anybody else heard The Sea and the Rhythm EP? It's the same wonderful quiet brilliance that Sam Beam gave to us on his debut. It's a strong reccomendation for any fan of him.

[Reigh Kaufman]

Damn, I'm so slow. Right, the reason for my slowness, I must admit, is that about four months ago Psychocandy sent me a whole bunch of albums (44 of 'em). Ever since then I have been working my way through each of them, giving them all a good listen, becoming a fan of most of the artists he sent me (though, sorry, Psycho, I still cannot get in to The Coral - they're just Cast with worse haircuts). Well, last night as I was going to sleep I put the computer CD player on'shuffle' and started to fall asleep...about ten minutes in, this beautiful song started and my eyes popped open.

The song was Bird Stealing Bread. I then took the damn computer of shuffle and listened to the album all the way through. Four times. Beautiful, elegant, eloquent stuff, and - in with a bullet - my new favourite album of the year. Bird Stealing Bread is easily the most melancholy, sweet song I have heard since early Gomez - who the band remind me of in a superficial way, but if you don't like Gomez, well, that's okay, they are not THAT much like them - and I know that I will be listening to the album every night as I go to sleep.

Top stuff.

[BadCoverVersion]

Originally posted by Reigh Kaufman
I know that I will be listening to the album every night as I go to sleep.

Top stuff.

Funnily enough, I mentioned this particular album in the Music To Sleep By thread.

It's just bliss.

[Psychocandy]

Originally posted by SubMethod
Bump...

Has anybody else heard The Sea and the Rhythm EP? It's the same wonderful quiet brilliance that Sam Beam gave to us on his debut. It's a strong reccomendation for any fan of him.

I'll be hunting it down. Very soon. Meaning now!!! Cheers.