Sam Beam, AKA Iron & Wine, has revealed that his fourth album will be out this January. Entitled Kiss Each Other Clean, the album will be his first on a major label after departing Sub Pop for Warner Brothers. He’s promising a ‘focused pop record’ and describes the album’s feel as “It sounds like the music people heard in their parent’s car growing up… that early-to-mid-’70s FM, radio-friendly music.” Recorded over none months between is Austin, Texas home and studios in Chicago, the album also incorporates a lot of horns and synthesizers, and is something that he took a studious approach to working on, sitting down with a notepad every morning in his kitchen. And although the premise of the album is pop, Beam says “there are straight-up jazz, blues, and African elements.” Iron & Wine hit the road in the US next month, so a betting person might like the odds of them playing the Golden Plains Festival and touring Australia in March.
