The Avett Bros – I and Love and You

My little sister sent me an email one time. “Go listen to the Avett Brothers and thank me later” she said. This being a reversal of when I normally email her her new favourite music I took my time getting around to it. When I finally got Emotionalism and took the time to listen to it through, I was officially hooked. So, needless to say, but I will anyway to get my word count up, I was all over the Bros newest release, I and Love and You.

There was a lot of talk of sellouts and all that shit because of the Rick Rubin producer tag attached to it. I and Love and You is full of tunes just as solid as any other Avett Bros song I’ve ever heard. It’s far from a sellout record. It’s the same songwriting style as any record before, just with a little more polish, which serves the songs well. Obviously Rubin knows what he’s doing. I mean, he’s only been doing it forever.

As is a habit of mine, my favourite tracks are among the first on the album. I and Love and You is solid. January Wedding has lines in it that you wish were chorus’s so that they wouldn’t end. And It Spread has been stuck in my head for weeks, popping up days after hearing it to remind me that the Avett’s are serious about this stuff they’re doing.

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