<P> Ghost on Ghost, Iron & Wine's fifth studio album, was released in April 2013 on Nonesuch Records in North America and 4AD for the rest of the world . Ghost on Ghost marked a further exploration into the pop sounds of Kiss Each Other Clean while also exhibiting jazz and R&B influences, with jazz drummer Brian Blade contributing to the album . In January 2014, recording during the polar vortex in Chicago, Beam and his regular collaborator Brian Deck co-produced eight of the ten songs on Chadwick Stokes' 2015 album The Horse Comanche . Beam contributed the Iron & Wine band to the sessions and sang backing vocals . </P> <P> Iron & Wine released two albums in 2015 . Archive Series: Volume 1, released in February, featured unreleased songs recorded during the same period as The Creek Drank the Cradle . Covers album, Sing Into My Mouth, recorded with Band of Horses singer Ben Bridwell, was released in July . Love Letter for Fire, an album of duets with American singer - songwriter Jesca Hoop, was released in 2016 on Sub Pop . Produced, recorded, and mixed by Tucker Martine, the album also featured contributions from Wilco's Glenn Kotche, Rob Burger, Eyvind Kang, Sebastian Steinberg, and Edward Rankin - Parker . </P> <P> In August 2017, Iron & Wine's sixth studio album Beast Epic was released through Sub Pop Records . The record saw Beam strip back the production and array of instruments from previous records to return to more simple and melodic song structures . </P> <P> Beam, his wife Kim, and their five daughters live in Durham, North Carolina . He was raised in the Bible belt as a Christian, but is now an agnostic: "That was a confusing time for me, but I don't miss being misled . I'm not an atheist . There's an undeniable unseen world that some people call God and think they know more about than other people . I try not to get hung up on the names ." </P>

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