Iron and Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean – review

(4AD)As you might expect of an erstwhile lecturer and father of five with a beard the size of a copse, Sam Beam has scant regard for notions of cool. His fourth album as Iron and Wine is accordingly packed with sounds that a more self-conscious indie-folk musician wouldn't contemplate. The bass on Me and Lazarus struts its funky stuff like a vicar frugging at a wedding; Rabbit Will Run is beset by maniacally tweeting panpipes; the saxophone on Big Burned Hand sounds half-strangled. Stop winci...

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