AVTT/PTTN AVTT/PTTN LP (Sunspot Color Vinyl)

Scott and Seth Avett are the brothers behind the chart-topping, Grammy-nominated band The Avett Brothers. Mike Patton is the journeyman rock icon best known as the frontman of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle. These three are proud to unveil a new album and project. Together, they are AVTT/PTTN.

AVTT/PTTN finds these three kindred spirits on equal footing as songwriters and collaborators, no one party seeming to hold greater creative influence over the other. "Dark Night of My Soul," the album's opening song, begins with gentle fingerpicked acoustic guitar that soon leads to the voices of Scott and Seth melding with Mike's seasoned croon for a velvety three-part harmony. Throughout the record, there's an ease and musical seamlessness to how these first-time collaborators lock in with each other.

"Mike's part of our DNA, like the fabric of our youth," Scott Avett said. If you flash back decades to a Mr. Bungle show in North Carolina, you could very well find a young Scott and Seth Avett in the crowd. "Literally, we studied him. He's a dear friend now, but when we were younger, I was imitating him."

After the album was finished, this long-distance project materialized in the real world—a North Carolina kitchen, to be exact. For the first time, the three men sang in a room together, each of them blown away by how their harmonies locked into place. All three of them talk about this record and new band as a manifestation of the deepest kind of friendship. "It's like we were pen pals with this older brother that we hadn't seen in forever," Scott said.

Mike sees his role in AVTT/PTTN in a similar (but darkly funny) light: "My peculiar challenge in this was to become a long distant cousin. A brother that was orphaned. Maybe they kept him in the chicken coop or some shit. They brought him out years and years later."