For the best part of a quarter of a century North Carolina singer-songwriter Sam Beam has steadily released albums of depth and substance under his Iron & Wine guise, playing a form of indie-folk before that term was invented. Strictly speaking, Hen’s Teeth is the eighth Iron & Wine album but Beam’s collaborations with the likes of Calexico, Jesca Hoop and Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses comfortably takes him into double figures.
It sees him carry on from 2024’s Light Verse album with the songs broadly from the same period of writing and occupying similar territory. ‘Roses’ opens the album, progressing from modest origins into something spacious and technicolour via low-key psychedelia. It does a good job of representing both ends of the sonic spectrum…

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