Iron & Wine
Woman King EP
Beautiful. Start to finish. This six song EP feels like a full album because every song is so incredibly good. Iron & Wine everything-man Sam Beane starts off with the haunting title track, a vision of a sword-wielding woman king and continues through the EP with the urgency of vigilante justice.
Things soften up for the pretty "Jezebel" and rainy-day "Gray Stables before the foot stomping, saloon rockin' "Freedom Hangs Like Heaven." It feels like the intro the old western, dusty dual about to take place outside the front door.
"My Lady's House" is the type of love song that makes your heart feel heavy and utterly worn out by the time it's over. No rest for the weary or for the lovelorn as Beane's last track is a battle hymn of dualing distorted guitars and angry violins.
Who needs an LP when you can say it all in six songs?
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