★★★★★
There's a basic concept in economics called diminishing marginal utility, and it refers to the declining satisfaction of a consumer with every successive purchase of the same product. In other words, the first time you eat at your favorite restaurant should be better than the tenth time, and so on until you either grow weary of it or settle into a state of equilibrium...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-02-08
★★★★★
North Carolina's pop/punk/country hybrid The Avett Brothers may have fewer siblings than Kings Of Leon but they are a far more cohesive sounding unit. After releasing a creative high point in The Carpenter, the band has quickly followed up with another album with recordings arising from that same Rick Rubin-led session. Where The Carpenter found The Avett Brothers embracing their pop smarts, Magpie And The Dandelion is a more sombre and controlled affair...
- www.beat.com.au
2014-01-14
★★★★★
Hhonest and unaffected, but also self--regarding ... the Avett Brothers
Most of the songs on the Avett Brothers' eighth album were recorded in the same sessions as last year's The Carpenter. And some should have remained off-cuts: Morning Song, which gushes with self-help sentiment; Never Been Alive, a plodding piano waltz equating being in a band with helping others; Bring Your Love to Me, yet another song about "trying to help", which at least has a...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-11-22
★★★★★
"I've got somethin' to say/But it's all vanity," sings Scott Avett on "Vanity." While that may be the case in another context, it's certainly not true of any of the 11 songs on this outstanding release. Having been around long enough to know what works and what doesn't--in songwriting as in personal relations--North Carolina's Avett Brothers have filled Magpie and the Dandelion with taut, unaffected verses that dredge the past, weigh damage against possibility, and seek emergence through...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-11-12
★★★★★
The Avett Brothers have certainly came a long way since first bursting out onto the scene and into the iPods of adoring fans across the country. Their sound has undoubtedly grown bigger and larger, fuller and brighter. Take for instance the second track on Magpie: "Morning Song." Towards the end of it, there's practically a full-on choir belting out the hook, which in the grand scheme of the Avett's discography, is a wild departure from their earlier, understated tracks like "January Wedding"...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-10-31
★★★★★
THE AVETT BROTHERS - Magpie and the Dandelion
Album:
Magpie and the Dandelion
Artist: Avett Brothers
Label: Universal/American
Release Date: October 15, 2013
http://www.universalrecords...
- blurtonline.com
2013-10-29
★★★★★
The new Avett Brothers album kicks off with "Open-Ended Life", a knockout country rocker that features Scott Avett's banjo burples, Seth Avett's twang-guitar blang sounding straight out of Uncle Tupelo's basement, a harmonica that blows in like a holdover from the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, and a zippy fiddle coda that anchors a rousing final minute...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-10-18
★★★★★
Since their 2009 breakout album, I And Love And You , The Avett Brothers have been working with superstar producer Rick Rubin. Despite being one of the most sought after producers today, many of the Avetts' early fans have been disappointed with the glistening sheen that Rubin has used to glaze over the band's endearingly imperfect sound, a facet that was once charming when they were folk's best kept secret...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-10-18
★★★★★
opinion by ADAM OFFITZER
The best bands of our generation have a tendency to wait years between albums, making each release a monumental "event." Arcade Fire, Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem and Vampire Weekend have become known for making a splash with album roll-outs, touring the country, then going MIA for two or three years before coming out of hibernation to surprise us again...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2013-10-18
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