Iron & Wine "Creek Drank the Cradle" 2024-04-05 City pop has gained popularity

City pop has gained popularity in the US over the last few years

'Dead Wishes' and many more

even though it contains some of Marley's best work

or even Neal and Del's classic "Those aren't pillows" scene from Planes

perhaps their most perfectly-realised album to date

Iron & Wine "Creek Drank the Cradle" 2024-04-05 City pop has gained popularityIron and Wine is the one guy and his tape deck project of Samuel Beam. It's an ode to an older South, defined by traditional values, pastoral imagery, and arcane manners. Beam teaches cinematography at a local Miami college, and this connection with film shows in the construct of his songs. It's arresting stuff; intimate "American Gothic" style portraits and landscapes with traditional sounding backdrops, and laced with seductive melodies. "A "