Years to Burn is yet another chill, acoustic, folky album from Iron & Wine. I've never listened to Calexico before this so I can’t say much in the department of whether this is anything different for them. And honestly, the album featured less Calexico than I was hoping for when I chose it. Typically, Iron & Wine are a bit on the sad sounding side for artists. Appropriate music for moody college kids, amiright? Their previous album, Beast Epic, was a total surprise and quite possibly an outlier in terms of both excitement and my own enjoyment (both being more prevalent than usual for Iron & Wine listening). But Years to Burn kinda ended up sounding like all the rest of their albums before that. I did like the Tejano flair that Calexico added to a number of songs. I also liked that the album itself was short—had it been longer I think it would have put me to sleep.
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