The Avett Brothers Announce 1st New Album In 5 Years & Share Rick Rubin-Produced Single

The Avett Brothers will release their first album in five years on May 17 through Ramseur Records/American Recordings/Thirty Tigers. The band led by siblings Seth Avett and Scott Avett previewed the Rick Rubin-produced The Avett Brothers with the lead single, “Love Of A Girl.”

The Avett Brothers recorded the album with Rubin, with whom they have a long history of collaboration, at his Shangri-La Studios in Malibu. Additional sessions were held in Nashville, Mar Vista (Los Angeles) and The Avetts’ hometown of Concord, North Carolina. The nine-track album serves as the follow-up to 2019’s Closer Than Together.

According to the album’s announcement:

The Avett Brothers is a collection of songs seen through a lens of independently studied spirituality; questions and considerations in the interest of the divine unknowable. In an ongoing attempt to comprehend existence and our interpersonal connectedness, these songs seek the sacred in the commonplace: a cheap cup of coffee, the smallest movement of love, broken hearts and school bus lessons, a baby’s first and second steps, growing older and holding on to one’s roots, losing someone and accepting fate, rediscovering hope and finding sanctity in tragedy … ultimately reveling in the fun and surrender of what we cannot understand.

Stream “Love Of A Girl”:

The Avett Brothers Tracklist

1. Never Apart (w/ Vocal Prelude)
2. Love Of A Girl
3. Cheap Coffee
4. Forever Now
5. Country Kid
6. Orion’s Belt
7. 2020 Regret
8. Same Broken Bones
9. We Are Loved

The Avett Brothers will tour around the new record beginning with their The Avett Brothers At The Beach destination event in Mexico in April. The band will play the East Coast and New England in May and in California in June.

July sees stops in New Mexico, three nights at Red Rocks in Colorado and additional West Coast shows. August will focus on concerts in the Midwest, followed by Moon Crush “Avett Moon” in Miramar Beach, Florida in November.