The Avett Brothers Magpie and the Dandelion

The Avett Brothers are a Folk-Rock band from Concord, North Carolina. They have released 7 studio albums since their founding in 2000 with Magpie and the Dandelion being their 8th. The band comprises of Scott Avett on banjo, Seth Avett on guitar, Joe Crawford on bass and Joe Kwon on cello.

It hasn't even been 11 full months since The Avett Brothers released The Carpenter, the North Carolina band's most recent collection of poignant and infectious, bluegrass-inflected folk-rock. And, given the lengthy touring cycle that each major album release generally spawns — the Avetts just headlined a day of last month's Newport Folk Festival with songs from The Carpenter — fans had no reason to expect new music this year.

And yet here we are, on the brink of another full-length Avett Brothers record, titled Magpie and the Dandelion, due out Oct. 15. For fans accustomed to two- and three-year waits between albums, Magpie and the Dandelion's very existence comes as something of a surprise.

1) Open Ended Life
2) Morning Song
3) Never Been Alive
4) Another is Waiting
5) Bring Your Love to Me
6) Good to You
7) Apart From Me
8) Skin and Bones
9) Souls Like the Wheels
10) Vanity
11) The Clearness is Gone
12) Vanity (Demo)
13) Every Morning Song (Demo)
14) Another is Waiting (Demo)
15) Bring Your Love (Demo)