Avett Brothers Ready New Studio Album

Following the success of 2009’s major label breakout I and Love and You, The Avett Brothers will be working with superproducer Rick Rubin again on their follow-up. The prolific band has already recorded 13 songs at a session at the Echo Mountain studio in Asheville, North Carolina, and anticipates finishing by the middle of the year.

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“We’re looking at stopping it at 25 (songs),” Scott Avett told Billboard. “We have definitely that many we could do. The number of songs could probably go triple or quadruple that if we want, but sometimes the quality starts to drop with the quantity, so you can’t base it on numbers.”

The folk rockers will be back in the studio soon, but they’re taking their time with the new material. “Now, we’re going to listen to what we’ve done,” Avett said. “We’re gonna discuss it, discuss it with Rick, take our time with it and let the relationships with the songs grow. We’re really giving them time to be the best they can be and…not let anything out of the gate that’s not great.”