Who's Feeling Young Now?

Punch Brothers has always centered, both on stage and on record, on mandolinist Chris Thile, who handles the majority of the group’s singing and songwriting duties, as well as its many virtuosic solos. (The group evolved from Thile’s backing band for his 2006 solo record How To Grow A Woman From The Ground.) But Punch…

If vocalist-mandolinist Chris Thile and his merry band of prog-grass virtuosos decided to record an album crammed with foot…

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The third outing from the Punch Brothers picks up right where 2010's Antifogmatic left off, offering up another quality set of offbeat sophisti-grass that blends the whirlwind musicianship of Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, the spirited delivery of the Louvin Brothers, and the cinematic urban melancholy of Jeff Buckley into a sometimes impenetrable but always fascinating (check out the detailed cover of the instrumental title cut from Radiohead's Kid A) new take on new acoustic.

This album might not match the furious energy of their live shows, but it does show why the Punch Brothers are so special, writes <strong>Robin Denselow</strong>