TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal
Original Music On Vinyl LP!2019 Grammy Award Winner:
• Best Folk Album: All Ashore
Punch Brothers' first self-produced album, All Ashore, is released from Nonesuch Records on vinyl LP. The record includes nine original songs written by the band.
All Ashore follows Punch Brothers' critically acclaimed T Bone Burnett–produced 2015 release, The Phosphorescent Blues, of which NPR said, "Punch Brothers sing of distraction and isolation in the digital age … the sound is all their own." For All Ashore, the quintet—guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjo player Noam Pikelny, mandolinist and lead singer Chris Thile, and fiddler Gabe Witcher—again attempt to make sense of the world around them.
As Thile says, the album is "a meditation on committed relationships in the present day, particularly in the present political climate." He continues, "We were hoping to create something that would be convincing as a complete thought, in this case as a nine-movement, or nine-piece, thought. Though it's rangy in what it's talking about, and in the characters who are doing the talkingÂ…"
Features:
• Vinyl LP
Selections:
Side A:
1. All Ashore
2. The Angel Of Doubt
3. Three Dots And A Dash
4. Just Look At This Mess
Side B:
1. Jumbo
2. The Gardener
3. Jungle Bird
4. It's All Part Of The Plan
5. Like It's Going Out Of Style
