Sea & The Rhythm

Iron & Wine - Sea & The Rhythm

Sea & The Rhythm
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Artist: Iron & Wine
Brand: IRON & WINE
Edition: Music CD
Format: EP
CD Release Date: 2003-09-09
Music Label: Sub Pop
Soundtracks:
  1. Beneath The Balcony
  2. The Sea And The Rhythm
  3. The Night Descending
  4. Jesus The Mexican Boy
  5. Someday The Waves

Music reviews of Sea & The Rhythm

Music Review: "Someday the Waves Will Stop"
Rating: 4 Stars

Length - 21:16
The brilliant Floridian Sam Beam, aka Iron and Wine, had displayed his lush, porchlight lullabies magnificently on Iron and Wine's debut, The Creek Drank the Cradle. The Sea and the Rhythm divagates through the same wayworn roads, but with an augmented sense of wistfulness and desolation. Another reviewer propounded that this EP will make listeners who are more concerned with lyrics very happy. The lyrics are, without a doubt, indelibly beautiful; but depreciating the music by sparing it a mention lucidly personifies ignorance. The delicate acoustics are as much a part of the poetry as the words themselves. Without the lilting glow of a banjo and a guitar, seemingly strummed by divine fingers, Jesus the Mexican Boy and Someday the Waves would be nothing more than average ballads. The Night Descending, for example, offers such pensive lines as "Met a man with missing fingers/Shaking hands with shaded strangers/Far too strong to pacify you/Ain't no telling what they're up to", but conflated with the hokey, O Brother Where Art Thou?-ish country jangle, a lackluster track is rendered. Thankfully that is the only number with parts not adding up to a cohesive whole (hence my rating of 4 stars, 4 exceptional pieces). The opening duo of songs that I've yet to mention are both very well done. The mysterious opener Beneath the Balcony foreshadows the dense lyrical tapestry that is woven in somber stitching through the course of the EP. The eponymously titled second number is a sultry love song in the purest sense..."Our hands they seek the end of afternoon/My hands believe and move over you". All in all, The Sea & the Rhythm airily transcends its earthly figures of 21 minutes and 9 dollars in a meek, self-effacing manner. Not monetarily, but soulfully, it shares a brief composition that will pull at your heartstrings and leave you wondering, how can a man come to create such music?
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Description of Sea & The Rhythm

5 songs recorded in Sam Beam's bedroom from the same sessions that gave us 2002's The Creek Drank the Cradle. The Sea and the Rhythm includes "Jesus the Mexican Boy," which has been a big audience favorite at recent Iron and Wine shows.
This twenty-minute EP is a five-song companion piece to Sam Beam aka Iron & Wine?s exceptional 2002 debut, The Creek Drank the Cradle. Culled from sessions in Sam?s Florida house between 1999 and 2002, everything that made that left-field album of often beautiful and sometimes strange folk music is here. There?s Beam?s deft banjo and slide guitar playing, his hushed and lovely but somehow very intense vocals, and those wonderful cryptic Southern Gothic lyrics. The words are sung clearly and they?re worth chewing over; infused with religious overtones and muted irony, they?re never corny and invite multiple interpretations. A highlight is the audience favorite "Jesus the Mexican Boy," one of his most beautiful and touching songs to date. PS: Your copy did not get water-damaged; like the intentionally lo-fidelity recording sound, it?s supposed to look like that! --Mike McGonigal

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