Iron & Wine "The Shepherd's Dog" 2025-12-05 We don’t typically look to

We don’t typically look to pop albums to answer our cultural moment

2018 via Martha's Music under license to Napalm Records

and the music

The sound is more their own and at the same time not exactly like anything they've done before

Iron & Wine "The Shepherd's Dog" 2025-12-05 We don’t typically look toIron and Wine's last release (not including the collaborative in the Reins EP which featured songs by Iron and Wine's Sam Beam and performances by both Iron and Wine and Calexico together) was 2005's Woman King, a 6 song EP which distinguished itself from it's predecessors with a deepening integration of spiraling, dense opuses with intimate confessionals. On the Shepherd's Dog this integration is complete. Sam Beam has confessed to finding spiritual