Artist................... The Avett Brothers
Album.....................Four Thieves Gone: the Robbinsville Sessions
Label.....................Ramseur
Genre.....................Indie
Release...................05/26/2006
Street....................02/06/2006
Encoder...................LAME 3.97 beta
Quality...................--aps 44.1kHz/joint
# NAME TiME
01. Talk on Indolence 03:40
02. Pretty Girl from Feltre 05:33
03. Colorshow 03:58
04. Distraction #74 02:28
05. Sixteen in July 02:55
06. Left on Laura, Left on Lisa 04:00
07. A Lover Like You 02:34
08. Pretend Love 03:59
09. Matrimony 02:50
10. The Lowering 05:03
(A Sad Day in Greenvilletown)
11. The Fall 03:20
12. Dancing Daze 03:07
13. Famous Flower of Manhattan 03:53
14. 40 East 04:38
15. Gimmeakiss 02:14
16. Denouncing November Blue 03:37
(Uneasy Writer)
17. Four Thieves Gone 03:52
18. Untitled 07:20
The first two cuts on the Avett Brothers' Four Thieves
Gone, "Talk of Indolence" and "Pretty Girl from
Feltre," reveal that the brothers' style of folk (with
lots of other stuff thrown into the mix) is
intriguingly left of center. And while some listeners
may be somewhat tired of depressed college types who
sing, "Be loud, let your colors show...try to keep the
madness low" in a nasal drone, they're probably not
used to hearing the singer backed by kitchen-sink
arrangements that include piano, harmonica, and
shouting that stands in for background singing. On
"Distraction #74" the band verves in an entirely
different direction, doing its best impression of the
basement-era Band, updated for the post-millennium. As
the album moves on to tracks like "Sixteen in July,"
"Left on Laura, Left on Lisa," and "A Lover Like You,"
the Avett Brothers -- Scott Avett, Seth Avett, and Bob
Crawford -- continue to make good music, but these
songs lack the raw energy of the first four tracks.
Things pick up again on the jumpy "Matrimony," and
"Pretend Love" has a lovely, gentle feel about it, but
the songs, though quite good, fail to match the
intensity of the openers. One feels, in the end, that
Four Thieves Gone, at nearly 74 minutes, is just too
darn long. Nonetheless, the Avett Brothers' style is
much fresher and more fun than the average folk or
alternative country group's, and is well worth checking
out for those tired of the same old, same old.
We use LAME 3.97 now, which is approved.
69:01 min
86,4 Mb