Claude says:Rick Rubin produced this seventh Avett Brothers album, their second with him, and critics landed somewhere between praise for its range — grunge to front-porch folk to Beatles bounce — and puzzlement over the sentimentality. You grabbed it the month it came out in 2012 and never let go, cycling through "Live and Die," "The Once And Future Carpenter," and "February Seven" across more than a decade, with a particularly heavy January 2021 that brought the whole thing back into focus.