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Who’s Feeling Young Now?

Christianity Today February 14, 2012

Style: Experimental string band; compare to Cadillac Sky, The Farewell Drifters, Nickel Creek

Who's Feeling Young Now?

Who's Feeling Young Now?

Nonesuch

February 14, 2012

Who's Feeling Young Now?

Who's Feeling Young Now?

Nonesuch

February 14, 2012

Top tracks: “Soon or Never,” “Movement and Location,” “Kid A”

Punch Brothers’ 2008 debut, Punch, served as a creative catharsis for the faith-shaking divorce of mandolin maestro Chris Thile. The band’s new release, Who’s Feeling Young Now?, reveals a more comfortable collaboration within the band’s cosmopolitan newgrass fusion. The string band plays traditional instruments in nontraditional ways to exceptional effect; there’s jazz flow, pop playfulness, and rock electricity. “Movement and Location” sounds like The Edge got hold of a banjo. Thile’s lyrics are revealing yet restrained, and he can’t escape writing about relationships and God. “This Girl” satirically prays, “There’s this girl … / And I’d be the happiest backslider in the world / If you would tell her it’s your will for us to be together.”

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