Howdy and welcome to my store! Vinyl only release is limited to 1000 copies, so get on it. Iron & Wine & The Low Anthem team up to release their Daytrotter Sessions (both in their entirety) as a double A-Sided 12", speaking to those days when we are blurry on the edges half seeing things & half seeing right through them, translating the dark parts that surround you, & telling you what to do with those light parts that also surround you. LP includes letterpresses insert from Dexterity Press.

Iron & Wine: There are those days when we feel like we couldn't be more lost, as if we're literally fumbling around without any sort of pattern or clear destination in mind. We're blurry on the edges, half seeing things and half seeing right through them. We're breathing in fog, breathing out fog & our teeth are chattering incoherent error messages, making it feel as if every inch of our skin is short two or three heavy-duty blankets. We're off somewhere, for all intents and purposes, gone - out in the ether. These are the days when we feel that, to cut our losses, we should just remain on the sides of the windows where the least amount of damage can be done to us, where we're at least as safe as our belongings, our hoarded stuff makes us feel. What we're most worried about - it seems to Mr. Sam Beam of Iron & Wine - is not when our belongings might come alive, turn on us & seek blood, but when those other people that we share a home with, that one person we share that shaky skin with, decide that they want to turn on us. They don't know what this can look like & neither do we. We just believe it to be the worst that can happen. Beam, over the years, has written his way into these scenes, written us advertently right into them with him, alongside him, & we remain there, with him, unable to catch our breath. He takes the fog right out of us, counteracts our insecurities with the beautifully hushed uncertainty. It's as if he has a way of gathering up all of the bumps in the night, all of the fire light and all of the tender touches of a young mother or father, of a dying grandmother or grandfather & bringing them all into the picture to put us at ease.

The Low Anthem: Try this; Find the room that speaks the loudest in your house. The next thing that you need to do is put The Low Anthem's new album, "Smart Flesh" on the turntable & stay quiet. Ben Knox Miller, Jeff Prystowsky, Jocie Adams & new member Mat Davidson will translate the motions of the light in the room. They're translate the dark parts that surround you, & they'll tell you what they have to do with those light parts. They'll introduce you to all of the spirits that are roaming in that old room you're in. It's rather crowded, really. As a writer, Knox Miller, has a way of bringing us to all of the wakes in his life, even when they have nothing to do with death. He's a mournful sort & what it makes for in Low Anthem music is a sum of all the parts, a world that is often a very sad place, but one that is still rooted in an overwhelming yearning for joy. It's a world that - even when the shit is the thickest & the lows are the lowest - we are spoiled by a surplus of beauty. We see it through tears, which turn into prisms. We see it in death & we see it in birth. We are capable beings, but we are also as fragile as a kiss and a promise. The Providence, Rhode Island band can make us feel such great levels of hopefulness, even in the face of ugliness, in a "world gone mad." It can make us chuckle toward the end of our crying jags, the sobs getting broken by something to sustain us.

Record Condition: This record is brand new and unplayed!

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