Sam Beam returns with a follow-up EP to last year's acclaimed debut, 'The Creek Drank the Cradle.' The songs here were culled from that same batch of bedroom recordings. The EP also serves as a precursor to Iron and Wine's sophomore album, 'Our Endless Numbered Days.' As Entertainment Weekly said of Beam, 'Based in Miami, of all places, he launches balloons of sweetly whispered regret over trance-inducing backwoods string-band arrangements and watches them float away, his heart in tow. A-.'