In the four years that Iron and Wine have been away, fellow indie-folksters Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver have been grappling for the much coveted title of ‘Best Beard in Folk’, alongside enjoying chart-smashing breakthroughs, of course. They must be quivering in their boots now Samuel Beam’s back, wielding the superb Kiss Each Other Clean and, more importantly, displaying some impressive chin-based hair growth. Though, if the rumbling, elastic basslines and parping saxophones on tracks like ‘Me and Lazarus’ and ‘Big Burned Hand’ are anything to go by, Beam has funkier fish to fry. News just in: George Clinton’s cancelling that appointment with his barber as we speak.