Antifogmatic

Despite its conventional string-band arrangement—guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, upright bass—Punch Brothers turn out bluegrass music so unconventional that it barely merits the genre tag: The group favors meandering arrangements that hew closer to jazz or classical. But while its previous album, Punch, took that…

With Antifogmatic, the brothers have done a fine job of incorporating their most sophisticated aspirations into a more conventional album format.