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Feb 14, 2012The third outing from the Punch Brothers picks up right where 2010's Antifogmatic left off, offering up another quality set of offbeat sophisti-grass that blends the whirlwind musicianship of Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, the spirited delivery of the Louvin Brothers, and the cinematic urban melancholy of Jeff Buckley into a sometimes impenetrable but always fascinating.
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May 7, 2012The musical leaps Punch Brothers takes are invigorating, sometimes breathtaking.
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Mar 15, 2012[He is] an exceptional mandolinist and brilliant composer ... however, Thile's deficiency as songwriter has begun to bleed through, and the quintet's third album quickly wears thin.
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Feb 14, 2012Disjointedness and pretension are twin possibilities, but the Punch Brothers avoid both pitfalls; what results is always interesting, and sometimes spectacular.
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May 7, 2012They may have just crafted a masterpiece.
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Mar 1, 2012Who's Feeling Young Now?, the group's third album and strongest collection to date.
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Q MagazineApr 2, 2012An astonishing, envelope-pushing vision that mocks the idea of bluegrass being a revival genre. [Apr 2012, p.94]
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Feb 14, 2012Thile has a fine tenor, and if the originals don't reach pop heights, they strike a nice balance between old-school and modern.
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Feb 21, 2012Punch Brothers' third album as a group, Who's Feeling Young Now?, sees Thile and company continuing their evolution into a more egalitarian enterprise, sounding less like a hot-shit mandolin player with a crack backing ensemble and more like a band--and something like a rock band, at that.
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Feb 13, 2012Who's Feeling Young Now? strikes a perfect balance between flash and form, running blistered fingers on otherwise scholarly templates.
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Feb 13, 2012There are fine, unexpectedly jaunty melodies here, but they come wrapped in complex arrangements.
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Feb 13, 2012Chris Thile is the most remarkable mandolinist in the world; fluent, articulate and sometimes just a little too clever to be truly engaging.
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Feb 13, 2012Mr. Thile on mandolin, Noam Pikelny on banjo, Gabe Witcher on fiddle, Chris Eldridge on guitar and Paul Kowert on bass--have shifted the emphasis from instrumental wizardry to playful storytelling on this album, their third.
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Feb 21, 2012The band's twinkle-toed banjo runs and acoustic duelling fall flat here, hobbled by dreary songwriting.
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