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- Artist(s): Gabe Witcher, Chris Thile, Chris Eldridge, Paul Kowert
- Summary: The second album for the bluegrass five-piece band led by Chris Thile is the first to feature Paul Kowert who replaced Greg Garrison in November of 2008.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Country, Contemporary Bluegrass, Progressive Bluegrass, String Bands
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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While its previous album, Punch, took that sophistication to a level bordering on esotericism, the new Antifogmatic is as warm and welcoming as the bracing 19th-century drink that gave it its name.
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While's new band Punch Brothers is building a case for bigger fame with the release of its second album, Antifogmatic.
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Punch Brothers tuck their instrumental prowess into songs, behind or between the arching melodies carried by Mr. Thile's high, aching voice. And he brings something unexpected to the pickin' party: angst, which in these songs often happens to revolve around the dangerous lure of available women.
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In these tough times, Thile's words, and the album as a whole, are more effective than the titular tonic at staving off inclement weather, at least of the emotional variety. A strong dose of Antifogmatic goes a long way.
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For all their peerless technical skill, it's the gutsiness they display throughout Antifogmatic that makes the album one of the year's finest, most ambitious records.
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It is, truly, postmodern bluegrass-keenly self-conscious of its own brilliance.
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If nothing on Antifogmatic is quite that ambitious, nevertheless in track after track Thile leads the band through labyrinthine arrangements that shift tempos and instrument groupings, over which he sings abstract lyrics in a slightly disembodied high tenor voice.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Feb 16, 2013
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Mar 9, 2015
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