The Second Gleam by Avett Brothers

The Second Gleam, sometimes billed as The Gleam II, is a 2008 EP from the Avett Brothers, the stripped-down sequel to The Gleam from 2006, and it catches Scott and Seth Avett in a hushed, intimate mood between Emotionalism and I and Love and You. It's an acoustic record: Scott's banjo, Seth's guitar and the brothers' voices leaning in close, the kind of plain-spoken folk that makes a room go still.

The band produced it with Doug Williams, who recorded it at Electromagnetic Radiation Recorders; only "The Greatest Sum (Electric)" was made elsewhere, at Echo Mountain. "Murder in the City" is the one that has lingered, a small, tender song that rock radio's listeners keep coming back to.

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