Weed Garden

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Weed Garden
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EP by
ReleasedAugust 31, 2018 (2018-08-31)
Length20:22
Label Sub Pop
Iron & Wine chronology
Beast Epic
(2017)
Weed Garden
(2018)
Years to Burn
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [3]
Exclaim! 6/10 [4]

Weed Garden is an EP by American musician Iron & Wine. It was released on August 30, 2018 through Sub Pop. [5] [6] [7]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."What Hurts Worse"3:00
2."Waves of Galveston"3:36
3."Last of Your Rock 'N' Roll Heroes"3:20
4."Milkweed"3:20
5."Autumn Town Leaves"3:15
6."Talking to Fog"3:51

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
US Folk Albums (Billboard) [8] 19
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [9] 13

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