I'm a fan (and you should be too) because... TAB has a lyric for everybody in every step of life. They write human songs with ethereal melodies. They sing the words that a million hearts have thought quietly, and screamed the tunes that a million souls have hummed.

Every album gets better and better, and coming from a fickle cynic, that's pretty damn good. The Avett Brothers are the only band that I have listened to for longer than a month at a time. 2.5 years continuously, to be precise. That kind of obsession is usually relegated to lovesick Romeos and pining Juliets. Theirs is music that I will subject my children to, so that when their tender emotions ebb and swell they will hear sympathy in the mutual experience of humanity.

The Avett Brothers are an audible antidepressant that I don't believe should be missed by anyone with a heart to feel and a head to think.