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Iron & Wine
- Record Label: Black Cricket Recording
- Release Date: Feb 24, 2015
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MagnetMar 12, 2015There's something comforting about hearing this stripped-down version of Iron & Wine again. [No. 118, p.54]
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Feb 24, 2015With 16 tracks and a runtime of over an hour, Archive Series Volume No. 1 doesn't have quite enough stylistic or emotional variety to hold up as a proper album. As a vaults-emptying exercise, however, it's stunning to see just how much quality material Iron & Wine has had sitting around collecting dust for all these years.
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Feb 24, 2015The songs on here are surprisingly strong, such that any of them could have appeared on a proper album at any point in Beam’s decade-plus career. But the collection never sounds like the sum of its parts.
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Mar 11, 2015They’re good enough to rank as a most worthy addition to Iron and Wine’s classic catalogue. In fact, none of the songs in this set offer any musical differences from the fully realized material that make up Iron and Wine’s “official” releases.
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Feb 24, 2015Anyone who was spoken to by the low-lit intimacy of The Creek Drank the Cradle should seek out Archive Series, Vol. 1 as a perfect companion piece to that album and as deeper look into what must have been an incredibly inspired and productive time for the young songwriter.
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Feb 24, 2015Archive Series, Vol. 1 is a collection of 16 pop prayers and private whispers that offer a striking alternate version of Iron & Wine’s mythic inaugural release.