Ahead of next weekend’s show at Koka Booth, Schoolkids has scored the newest Avett Brothers acoustic album a couple of days before its Tuesday street date. I can hear all the young fans screaming and demanding multiple copies already...what better way to start the weekend.
The Avetts are one of the biggest bands to come out of North Carolina in years, selling out shows all across the country. Tickets look to still be available for the outdoor show next weekend in Cary, so snatch yourself some tickets and a copy of The Gleam II, you have a week to learn all 6 songs. Most will know all the lyrics by tomorrow.
The Gleam II picks right up where the first one left off. All acoustic songs with beautiful lyrics and voices, as usual. Considering they are working with Rick Rubin on their next album, The Avett Brothers will be sure to expand their song base even farther. The Gleam II could simply be the calm before the storm, and a beautiful calm it is.
The album is also on Vinyl with 2 extra songs and there are contests to go along with this release. There will also be a lot of new merch for you to spend your allowance on at the Cary show.
In addition to these items, we will have a ton of t-shirts (with a few new designs), special limited-edition Philly and NYC Emotionalism CDs (from the shows in May of ‘07), patches, new stickers, a variety of signed posters, signed photos by Crackerfarm, western shirts, bandannas, hoodies and a few totes from Red Canary plus all of the albums including The Second Gleam on both vinyl and cd!
From The New York Daily News
The Avett Brothers have such beautiful, boyish voices. But on their sterling new EP, “The Gleam II,” they seldom pair them. Each sibling — Scott and Seth — sings three of the EP’s six songs, laying just the lightest, and most fleeting harmonies on each other’s work.
It’s fitting for a disk that’s all about feeling cut off — both for better, and for worse. “Bulldoze the world that I ran through/I have no memory of who I once was,” sings Seth Avett in “Tear Down the House.”
“This and who I used to be/don’t matter much to me at all,” Scott croons in “The Greatest Sum.”
The brothers match these words of transition to nothing more than their own two acoustic guitars. And with them they spin out melodies as pure and pretty as a crystalline stream.
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