The Carpenter

rollingstone

The most telling moment on the Avett Brothers' seventh album is "Pretty Girl From Michigan," part of a decade-long song series that began with "Pretty Girl From Matthews." On "Michigan," the bluegrass pickin' and raw country harmonies of previous "Girls" – born partly, one imagines, from repeated listens to the Stones' "Dead Flowers" – give […]

pitchfork

The once bare-boned, focused band releases its second album on Rick Rubin's American label, an at-times bloated collection of meditations on aging and death.