Iron & Wine Announces 1st Album In 7 Years And 2024 Summer Tour Dates

Iron & Wine (Sam Beam) will issue his first solo full-length album since 2017, Light Verse, on April 26 via Sub Pop Records. The singer-songwriter shared the lead single, “You Never Know,” along with 2024 Summer Tour dates.

Produced by Sam Beam with mixing/engineering by Dave Way at Waystation and Silent Zoo Studios in Los Angeles, Light Verse is Iron & Wine’s seventh studio album. The new record follows 2017’s Beast Epic and the 2018 EP Weed Garden.

The 10-track collection sees contributions from Fiona Apple (“All In Good Time”), Dawes drummer Griffin Goldsmith, keyboardist Tyler Chester, bassist Sebastian Steinberg and guitarist David Garza. Beth Goodfellow and Kyle Crane round out the drums and percussion while Paul Cartwright adds strings along with a 24-piece orchestra.

A press release further detailed the new Iron & Wine LP:

With Light Verse, Beam’s lyrics once again draw on a series of fictional and personal insights, filled with desperate characters and wide-eyed optimists, offering promise and a dose of heartache, tears and laughter, life and love. It’s also Iron & Wine’s most playful record, with its title reflecting how the songs were born with joy after the heaviness and anxiety of the pandemic. Where Beast Epic and Weed Garden gave air to the disquiet of middle-aged frailty and brokenness, Light Verse’s songs trade that for the focus acceptance can bring. Moment by moment, they delight in being pointed or silly (or both) and attempt beauty over prettiness.

Preview Light Verse with the lyric video for lead single and opening track “You Never Know” below:

Iron & Wine will kick off the tour around Light Verse on June 14 at The Pabst Theater in Milwaukee followed by a concert in St. Paul the following evening. Beam will then work his way west with shows in Denver and Salt Lake City.

A West Coast stint gets underway in Seattle on June 20. Additional West Coast stops include Portland (two nights), Vancouver, Oakland, Monterey (California), Los Angeles (two nights) and the San Diego area.

July 2 will see Iron & Wine in Phoenix followed by concerts in Taos (New Mexico) and Tulsa. Beam then returns to the Midwest with shows in St. Louis and Chicago.

On July 31, Iron & Wine hits New Orleans followed by a Texas swing with engagements in Houston, Austin and Dallas. On August 5, Beam will perform in Atlanta followed by North Carolina concerts in Wilmington and Raleigh.

Next, a show in Washington D.C. on August 9 ahead of a run through the Northeast with stops in Philadelphia, Boston, New Haven (Connecticut) and Brooklyn. Beam then heads to Canada for shows in Montreal and Toronto.

On August 18, Iron & Wine will perform in Detroit followed by engagements in Cleveland, Indianapolis and Louisville. The summer tour concludes at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium on August 24.

A fan ticket presale begins Thursday, February 8 at 10 a.m. local time while general on-sales start on Friday, February 9 at 10 a.m. local time.

Light Verse Tracklist:

1. You Never Know
2. Anyone’s Game
3. All in Good Time (Feat. Fiona Apple)
4. Cutting It Close
5. Taken by Surprise
6. Yellow Jacket
7. Sweet Talk
8. Tears that Don’t Matter
9. Bag of Cats
10. Angels Go Home