The Avett Brothers announce new album, Nearer Than Collectively, share “Excessive Steepin’”

The Avett Brothers have introduced a brand new album referred to as Nearer Than Collectively. The band’s tenth full-length thus far arrives October 4th through American/Republic Data.

In a prolonged mission assertion asserting the album’s launch, Seth Avett stated the band “didn’t make a report that was meant to touch upon the sociopolitical panorama that we reside in. We did, nevertheless, make an album that’s clearly knowledgeable by what is occurring now on a grander scale throughout us… as a result of we’re part of it and it is part of us. Nearer Than Collectively is a report of apparent American origin – a creation that fittingly might solely come about via arduous work, measured freedom, awe-inspiring landscapes, and completely flawed individualism.

“The Avett Brothers will in all probability by no means make a sociopolitical report,” Avett added. “But when we did, it’d sound one thing like this.”

The album’s first single is known as “Excessive Steppin’”. Within the music’s spoken phrase interlude, Avett notes, “You’ll be able to solely reside at some point at a time, solely drive one scorching rod at a time, solely say one phrase at a time, solely suppose one thought at a time….” Consistent with this theme, the accompanying video stars Scott Avett as a “rhinestone cowboy” and Seth Avett as his grim reaper of a passenger. Watch it under.

As per standard, The Avett Brothers have packed their upcoming itinerary with a load of tour dates. You will get tickets right here.

Learn Seth Avett’s full mission assertion:

The very last thing the world wants is one other piece of sociopolitical commentary. We, as a species that boasts at the least some semblance of consciousness, are getting into an odd new type of fatigue: one which encompasses not solely our observance of the habits of others (nefarious and in any other case), but in addition our seemingly limitless endurance to loudly choose and wax philosophically about it. In fact, in every occasion, no matter its nature or circumstance, our personal private opinions are offered because the clear, right, and solely perspective on any given topic. We converse as if we aren’t one physique, although we’re. We choose as if we don’t worth the judgment of others upon us, although we do. We overlook to place our toes into the footwear of our neighbor, and curse them for making the identical historical mistake.

My brother and I’ve by no means been extra conscious of our personal failings within the division of golden-rule navigation. We see it in ourselves and we’re accustomed to seeing it in our neighborhood, our state, our nation, our planet. We converse day by day with one another in regards to the lunacy of the world during which we reside… the fantastic thing about it, the thriller of it, the hilarity and the unspeakable calamity of it. We discuss God and neighborhood and evil and what forgiveness is and what it means to purpose for unconditional love in a land (and physique) stuffed with circumstances. Typically we really feel higher simply from talking about it with a liked one. Typically we don’t and we go to our little bunks on the tour bus and proceed to course of the newest instance of fear-inducing information that our telephones have indiscriminately handed us. We then concurrently endeavor to forgive ourselves for being within the lucky place of getting bunks in a tour bus to lie down on. In no matter means we course of each private and universally-affecting occasions, in some unspecified time in the future, these conversations develop melodies and discover themselves stepping again into our lives within the types of songs.

As our data are usually, the latest – entitled ‘Nearer Than Collectively’ – is definitely led by the private narrative of our personal lives. On this means, there is no such thing as a large departure from our continued creative language. This chapter nevertheless, maybe partly due to our age or our time, wanders inevitably into hallways each social and political. These are songs developed via and impressed by not solely what we see inside our houses and our travels, however by the connections we’re blessed to nourish, the conversations by which we’re stunned and intrigued, and by the far-reaching experiences of our distant brothers and sisters. We’re household males with good and evil in our hearts, and the pains and joys on this world are mirrored on the small scale of our personal private existence. The songs herein are reflections of what we’re. ‘We’ that means Scott and me. ‘We’ that means this household and this band. ‘We’ that means the strangers we’ve had (and could have) the glory of encountering everywhere in the world. ‘We’ that means ‘We the Individuals’.

We didn’t make a report that was meant to touch upon the sociopolitical panorama that we reside in. We did, nevertheless, make an album that’s clearly knowledgeable by what is occurring now on a grander scale throughout us…as a result of we’re part of it and it is part of us. ‘Nearer Than Collectively’ is a report of apparent American origin – a creation that fittingly might solely come about via arduous work, measured freedom, awe-inspiring landscapes, and completely flawed individualism.

The Avett Brothers will in all probability by no means make a sociopolitical report. But when we did, it’d sound one thing like this.

-Seth Avett (Summer time 2019)