South Carolina’s Iron & Wine has made his new record available for streaming today, online a week before its proper release April 16. Listen to the full album stream on NPR.

Produced by Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Califone), the follow-up to 2011′s Kiss Each Other Clean comes stocked with 12 tracks that shift away the “anxious tension” of the project’s previous two records. “This record felt like a reward to myself after the way I went about making the last few,” frontman Sam Beam said in a press release.

He’s set to head across the pond in May to support the release, playing the following UK and Irish dates:

May
28 – The Barbican, London 
29 – Olympia Theatre, Dublin
30 – Opera House, Manchester
31 – The Barbican, London