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Track List
01) The Once and Future Carpenter
02) Live and Die
03) Winter in My Heart
04) Pretty Girl From Michigan
05) I Never Knew You
06) February Seven
07) Through My Prayers
08) Down With the Shine
09) A Father's First Spring
10) Geraldine
11) Paul Newman vs. The Demons
12) Life
13) Standing with You
14) Die Then Grow
01) The Once and Future Carpenter
02) Live and Die
03) Winter in My Heart
04) Pretty Girl From Michigan
05) I Never Knew You
06) February Seven
07) Through My Prayers
08) Down With the Shine
09) A Father's First Spring
10) Geraldine
11) Paul Newman vs. The Demons
12) Life
13) Standing with You
14) Die Then Grow
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2012
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The Carpenter is the seventh studio album by folk rock group The Avett Brothers. The album was produced by Rick Rubin who produced their previous full-length studio album, I and Love and You.
The album was listed at #41 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 50 albums of 2012, saying " The palette ranges from Nineties grunge to wintry front-porch lamentation to Beatles bounce, tied together by a sweet Southern-bro sentimentality."
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This North Carolina band enjoyed an unexpected breakthrough after the man with the Midas touch, Rick Rubin, came on board to produce their 2009 album I and Love and You, culminating in a celebrated performance at the 2011 Grammy Awards.
The Avett Brothers took their time honing its successor, and it shows in the beautifully crafted songs in this flowing, unusually integrated record; it feels like an natural whole, rather than a collection of tracks conceived in isolation.
Rubin is again at the helm, and you imagine it’s his restraining hand that prevents their neat ballad constructions and sparing arrangements from spilling over either into anodyne country smoothness or self-consciously jagged rock.
Even when they plough in heavy with electric guitar, feedback and a fierce beat on the sinister sounding Paul Newman vs. The Demons, they retain a pleasing Buddy Holly jingle jangle. While the relentlessly jaunty banjo-driven sing-along Live and Die has such an unaffected freshness, it adroitly avoids the studied frenzy that sometimes makes their transatlantic spiritual cousins Mumford & Sons hard to love.
Full of vulnerability and understated melancholia, the band cleverly creates an illusion of simplicity that highlights the yearning lead vocals and powerful harmonies of Seth and Scott Avett. And this album’s essential character remains unshaken, even when Seth plunges strident electric guitar into Pretty Girl From Michigan.
The vigorous percussion of Lenny Castro and Benmont Tench’s assorted keyboards add further weight and variety, but there’s nothing overbearing or intrusive about any of it, even as a seemingly basic country song February Seven subtly grows into a minor epic and a welter of brass builds atmospherically behind the absurdly infectious Down With the Shine.
A telling undercurrent of sorrow underpins an album that works on several levels – not least in the involving lyrics (“The homophobic gentlemen built barricades / But their efforts couldn’t stop me” – Geraldine) amid stories of loss, wanderlust and mortality.
But ultimately it’s The Avett Brothers’ innate ability to deliver killer tunes and present them in an engaging fashion that connects them to a vintage pedigree of classic American artists, from Crosby, Stills & Nash and Neil Young onwards, that seduces you from track one.
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The Carpenter is the seventh studio album by folk rock group The Avett Brothers. The album was produced by Rick Rubin who produced their previous full-length studio album, I and Love and You.
The album was listed at #41 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 50 albums of 2012, saying " The palette ranges from Nineties grunge to wintry front-porch lamentation to Beatles bounce, tied together by a sweet Southern-bro sentimentality."
User Album Review
This North Carolina band enjoyed an unexpected breakthrough after the man with the Midas touch, Rick Rubin, came on board to produce their 2009 album I and Love and You, culminating in a celebrated performance at the 2011 Grammy Awards.
The Avett Brothers took their time honing its successor, and it shows in the beautifully crafted songs in this flowing, unusually integrated record; it feels like an natural whole, rather than a collection of tracks conceived in isolation.
Rubin is again at the helm, and you imagine it’s his restraining hand that prevents their neat ballad constructions and sparing arrangements from spilling over either into anodyne country smoothness or self-consciously jagged rock.
Even when they plough in heavy with electric guitar, feedback and a fierce beat on the sinister sounding Paul Newman vs. The Demons, they retain a pleasing Buddy Holly jingle jangle. While the relentlessly jaunty banjo-driven sing-along Live and Die has such an unaffected freshness, it adroitly avoids the studied frenzy that sometimes makes their transatlantic spiritual cousins Mumford & Sons hard to love.
Full of vulnerability and understated melancholia, the band cleverly creates an illusion of simplicity that highlights the yearning lead vocals and powerful harmonies of Seth and Scott Avett. And this album’s essential character remains unshaken, even when Seth plunges strident electric guitar into Pretty Girl From Michigan.
The vigorous percussion of Lenny Castro and Benmont Tench’s assorted keyboards add further weight and variety, but there’s nothing overbearing or intrusive about any of it, even as a seemingly basic country song February Seven subtly grows into a minor epic and a welter of brass builds atmospherically behind the absurdly infectious Down With the Shine.
A telling undercurrent of sorrow underpins an album that works on several levels – not least in the involving lyrics (“The homophobic gentlemen built barricades / But their efforts couldn’t stop me” – Geraldine) amid stories of loss, wanderlust and mortality.
But ultimately it’s The Avett Brothers’ innate ability to deliver killer tunes and present them in an engaging fashion that connects them to a vintage pedigree of classic American artists, from Crosby, Stills & Nash and Neil Young onwards, that seduces you from track one.
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