““Is it still OK to call you my disco pickle?” By the time that Florence Shaw, Dry Cleaning’s conversational poet-in-residence, asks that question on “Hot Penny Day,” a tune that marks the halfway mark for the group’s second album, Stumpwork, the answer will invariably be yes. Any reluctant cukes likely would’ve moved on to another record several tracks earlier since the group makes such a divisive”
“Old friends, old songs and the occasional flash of new life as Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell team up”
“Sing Into My Mouth is a covers record by Band of Horses' Ben Bridwell and Iron & Wine's Sam Beam. Featuring selections by Talking Heads, Sade, Spiritualized, and others, there are moments when the project brings out the best in both Beam and Bridwell, whose day-job acts have been on a run of ho-hum albums.”
