Who’s Feeling Young Now? by Punch Brothers

Punch Brothers cut their third album, Who's Feeling Young Now?, at Blackbird Studio in Nashville with Jacquire King producing and engineering, and Nonesuch put it out on February 14, 2012. The band here is Chris Thile on mandolin, Noam Pikelny on banjo, Chris Eldridge on guitar, Paul Kowert on bass and Gabe Witcher.

This time the string wizards pare it back. Instead of piling on parts they doubled down on the ones already there, and the result is the most approachable thing they'd made, bluegrass instruments playing music that sits surprisingly close to the indie rock of the day: taut, twitchy and hooky, with a chamber group's discipline and a rock band's pulse. "Movement and Location" is the standout, Thile's song about former Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux and his fixation on precisely those two things; Thile has followed the Cubs for years. It followed Antifogmatic, and The Phosphorescent Blues came next.

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