by Roy Scopazzi
Fun fact! Iron and Wine and Band of Horses were both on Twilight soundtracks! I’d like to believe that’s what led to the collaboration album, Sing into My Mouth, and thus this concert, making Twilight a net-positive good on the world as a whole.
Okay, for real, the collaboration between these two acts do make sense back to back at the Warfield. For one thing, both of them sound like stores on a street in Napa, and they both make music that “Gets the White People turnt”. They don’t have the Exact same sound as Iron and Wine leans more folk and Band of Horses leans more rock but as each set had the other act join on stage, the blending of those sounds felt just right.
Iron and Wine’s worked their setlist around nearly all of their albums, only playing more than 2 songs from Light Verse along with covers with Ben Bridwell that included a song from Spiritualized, Talking Heads and even a Kendrick Lamar song near the end. Hearing him crack wise with Ben helped the whole thing feel a little more cohesive than if they just played their songs and left.
Band of Horses focused most of their songs between two albums, Cease to Begin and Everything All of the Time, some of those with Sam Beam of Iron and Wine. The biggest difference was hearing the bass sound pick up by a sizable amount, I felt the force of sound as wind as they started up Our Swords as it hit a volume that never got even close during Iron and Wine’s set. I appreciated the fact that they started it off and ended it with hits as well, it kept the set from feeling too front or backloaded.
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