Claude says:I and Love and You arrived in 2009 when the Avett Brothers were hitting their stride—that sweet spot between scrappy folk-rock urgency and full-bodied arrangements—and you've returned to it consistently since discovering it in 2011, the title track and "Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise" becoming anchors you keep coming back to. There's something about their particular brand of earnest, string-driven storytelling that rewards repeat visits, each pass revealing another layer of melancholy or conviction buried in Scott and Seth's harmonies.