The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton Announce Collaborative Album ‘AVTT/PTTN’

The Avett Brothers teamed with Mike Patton on a joint new album, AVTT/PTTN, which will arrive on November 14 via Thirty Tigers in association with Ramseur Records and Ipecac Recordings. Brothers Scott Avett and Seth Avett previewed their unexpected collaboration with the Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman through the lead single, “Eternal Love.”

Patton, Scott Avett and engineer Dana Nielsen co-produced AVTT/PTTN. The nine-track effort includes new original songs co-written by Patton and the Avetts, along with their interpretation of “The Ox Driver’s Song.”

“Mike’s part of our DNA, like the fabric of our youth,” Scott Avett stated. “Literally, we studied him. He’s a dear friend now, but when we were younger, I was imitating him.”

“My peculiar challenge in this was to become a long distant cousin,” Patton revealed. “A brother that was orphaned. Maybe they kept him in the chicken coop or some shit. They brought him out years and years later.”

The new songs were created from ideas generated by Scott Avett, with Patton reconfiguring the initial concepts before they finally took shape through Seth Avett’s solidifying arrangements.

“This is what art is,” Scott Avett added. “This is what making is supposed to be: in secret and with no ambition.”

Listen to the AVTT/PTTN lead single, “Eternal Love”:

AVTT/PTTN Tracklist

1. Dark Night of My Soul
2. To Be Known
3. Heaven’s Breath
4. Too Awesome
5. Disappearing
6. Eternal Love
7. The Ox Driver’s Song
8. The Things I Do
9. Received