As Iron & Wine, Sam Beam has always written about elemental things: time’s ceaseless passing, the miscommunications of lovers and death. His first records, 2002’s The Creek Drank the Cradle and 2004’s Our Endless Numbered Days, established a foundation of hushed, autumnal folk, but he’s spent much of the time since rewiring and augmenting his sound, both deconstructing it and…
