{"product_id":"iron-wine-hens-teeth-lp","title":"IRON \u0026 WINE - HEN'S TEETH LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’ve always wanted to use that title,” Sam Beam says of Hen’s\u003cbr\u003eTeeth, his eighth full-length album and his sixth for Sub Pop\u003cbr\u003eRecords. “I just love it. To me it suggests the impossible. Hen’s\u003cbr\u003eteeth do not exist. And that’s what this record felt like: a gift that\u003cbr\u003eshouldn’t be there but it is.”\u003cbr\u003eHen’s Teeth and his previous album, Light Verse, are siblings of a\u003cbr\u003esort. They were recorded during the same sessions after a\u003cbr\u003eyear-long dry spell, with the same band, at Waystation studio in\u003cbr\u003eLaurel Canyon. “I’m at a point in my life where spontaneity is a lot\u003cbr\u003emore important to me. I’m a lot freer and I love making music more\u003cbr\u003ethan ever. There are no right or wrong answers. You just pray for\u003cbr\u003eyour luck and try your best.”\u003cbr\u003eIn this case prayers were answered and luck struck hard. The\u003cbr\u003emusicians cohered so quickly that they were often getting songs\u003cbr\u003erecorded in just a few takes, sometimes at the rate of two or three\u003cbr\u003eper day. The two albums might therefore be thought of as fraternal\u003cbr\u003etwins: they share DNA and complement each other, but are\u003cbr\u003edefined as much by their dierences as their similarities.\u003cbr\u003eLight Verse (2024) took its name from a form of poetry that makes\u003cbr\u003eheavy use of wordplay, humor, and nonsense. It’s a sweet and airy\u003cbr\u003ealbum, impressionistic, at times even flirting with abstraction, a\u003cbr\u003ehearty shaking o of the doom and gloom of the Covid era. The\u003cbr\u003eworld of Hen’s Teeth is earthier, darker, more robust and more\u003cbr\u003etactile than that of Light Verse. The songs have titles like “Roses,”\u003cbr\u003e“Robin’s Egg,” “Dates and Dead People,” “Singing Saw.” The cover\u003cbr\u003eis a portrait of Beam surrounded on all sides by flourishing ferns and other tropical plant life - a surreal scene that contrasts starkly with the cool\u003cbr\u003eblue-white palette of Light Verse.\u003cbr\u003eAs for the music, Beam says: “The experiments in this one were more with genre\u003cbr\u003ethan with form. For the last couple years one of my go-to’s has been Van Morrisson’s\u003cbr\u003eAstral Weeks, that style where jazz musicians play folk music and it blossoms in\u003cbr\u003edierent ways than folk musicians are normally interested in doing.” The results nod\u003cbr\u003eto everything from Dock Boggs to Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel to Tropicalia. And Beam\u003cbr\u003econtinues to incorporate collaborations: “It’s exciting, making it more of a family\u003cbr\u003eaair. Interacting with a bunch of friends and being blown away by what they can\u003cbr\u003ebring, musically and emotionally. I get to play all day with these people I love and\u003cbr\u003ethey respond by giving me their most vulnerable, expressive self. It’s the weirdest,\u003cbr\u003ebest job ever.”\u003cbr\u003eHen’s Teeth features David Garza on guitar, Sebastian Steinberg on bass, and Tyler\u003cbr\u003eChester on keyboards. Grin Goldsmith, Beth Goodfellow, and Kyle Crane all play\u003cbr\u003edrums. Paul Cartwright handled string arrangements, and plays violin and mandolin\u003cbr\u003eamong others. The indie-country trio I’m With Her appears on the ebullient lead\u003cbr\u003esingle, “Robin’s Egg,” and again on the tender, mournful “Wait Up.” Beam’s\u003cbr\u003edaughter Arden contributes harmonies and backing vocals on three tracks. Born\u003cbr\u003etwo months before the release of his debut album, The Creek Drank the Cradle\u003cbr\u003e(2002), she is now 23 years old and a musician herself—the first of his children to\u003cbr\u003eappear on one of his records. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BLACK DOTS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42482194939998,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/2677\/files\/unnamed_4_b91e7165-10f0-4ea0-b0c4-e78ba40ad18b.jpg?v=1771941401","url":"https:\/\/blackdotsbuffalo.shop\/products\/iron-wine-hens-teeth-lp","provider":"BLACK DOTS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}