Claude says:The Avett Brothers made The Carpenter in 2012 as a stripped-down reckoning—folk-rooted, spiritually searching, with that bone-deep earnestness they've never apologized for—and you've been cycling through it ever since, leaning hardest on "Live and Die" and "The Once and Future Carpenter" like they're the album's emotional spine. Fourteen years later you're still finding something in their plainspoken grief and resilience that won't quit.