Album: All Ashore by Punch Brothers (2018)
Genre: BlueGrass
Record Label: Nonesuch
Format: Album

Related Artists: Béla Fleck, Sarah Jarosz, Nickel Creek, Chris Thile

Music Scene: Part of the Brooklyn, NY music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with BlueGrass movement. Known for Blues style.

Tags: BlueGrass, 2010s, Album, Nonesuch


Album: Hell on Church Street by Punch Brothers (2022)
Genre: Singer/Songwriter
Record Label: Nonesuch
Format: Album

Related Artists: Béla Fleck, Sarah Jarosz, Nickel Creek, Chris Thile

Music Scene: Part of the Brooklyn, NY music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with BlueGrass movement. Known for Blues style.

Tags: Singer/Songwriter, 2020s, Album, Nonesuch


Album: Antifogmatic by Punch Brothers (2010)
Genre: BlueGrass
Record Label: Nonesuch
Format: Album

Related Artists: Béla Fleck, Sarah Jarosz, Nickel Creek, Chris Thile

Music Scene: Part of the Brooklyn, NY music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with BlueGrass movement. Known for Blues style.

Tags: BlueGrass, 2010s, Album, Nonesuch


Album: Who's Feeling Young Now? by Punch Brothers (2012)
Genre: BlueGrass
Record Label: Nonesuch
Format: Album

Description: Who’s Feeling Young Now? finds this supergroup gelling as a unit. Formed by lead singer and mandolin master Chris Thile, the band includes Chris Eldridge on guitar, Paul Kowert on bass, Noam Pikelny on banjo, and Gabe Witcher on fiddle (and lead vocals on “Hundred Dollars”). Starting from a bluegrass foundation, the Brothers veer into jazz, pop, rock, and hidden corners of Americana on their third release. With dazzling interplay they trade solos and dance around sophisticated tunes filled with unusual time signatures, melodic beauty, and washes of dissonance. But though the arrangements are complex, the songs remain catchy and accessible. “Movement and Location” is lush and expansive, “Patchwork Girlfriend” is playful and loose, “Don’t Get Married Without Me” is a charming piece of pop-folk, and the title track is edgy and driving. And as further proof of their eclecticism, they do a riveting cover of Radiohead’s “Kid A” on which they transpose the original’s electronic blips for acoustic plucks and bends that are every bit as textured and intriguing.

Related Artists: Béla Fleck, Sarah Jarosz, Nickel Creek, Chris Thile

Music Scene: Part of the Brooklyn, NY music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with BlueGrass movement. Known for Blues style.

Tags: BlueGrass, 2010s, Album, Nonesuch

Who’s Feeling Young Now? finds this supergroup gelling as a unit. Formed by lead singer and mandolin master Chris Thile, the band includes Chris Eldridge on guitar, Paul Kowert on bass, Noam Pikelny on banjo, and Gabe Witcher on fiddle (and lead vocals on “Hundred Dollars”). Starting from a bluegrass foundation, the Brothers veer into jazz, pop, rock, and hidden corners of Americana on their third release. With dazzling interplay they trade solos and dance around sophisticated tunes filled with unusual time signatures, melodic beauty, and washes of dissonance. But though the arrangements are complex, the songs remain catchy and accessible. “Movement and Location” is lush and expansive, “Patchwork Girlfriend” is playful and loose, “Don’t Get Married Without Me” is a charming piece of pop-folk, and the title track is edgy and driving. And as further proof of their eclecticism, they do a riveting cover of Radiohead’s “Kid A” on which they transpose the original’s electronic blips for acoustic plucks and bends that are every bit as textured and intriguing.

Album: The Phosphorescent Blues by Punch Brothers (2015)
Genre: BlueGrass
Record Label: Nonesuch
Format: Album

Description: The Punch Brothers’ fourth album leaves no doubt: they aren't just newgrass, they're nextgrass. Or more accurately, prog-grass, as exemplified by the opening track here, "Familiarity". It's an epic, 10-minute suite brimming with bold shifts in tempo, meter and mood. If it were played on synths and electric guitars instead of banjo and mandolin, it wouldn't sound out of place on an album by vintage Genesis (or at least Radiohead, whom the band covered on their last album). But the PB's still find time to strut their classical chops on a few inspired pieces by Debussy and Scriabin, and they show off their roots cred with a fluid take on the traditional tune "Boll Weevil".

Related Artists: Béla Fleck, Sarah Jarosz, Nickel Creek, Chris Thile

Music Scene: Part of the Brooklyn, NY music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with BlueGrass movement. Known for Blues style.

Tags: BlueGrass, 2010s, Album, Nonesuch

Additional Context: Rating score: 8. Based on 2 votes

The Punch Brothers’ fourth album leaves no doubt: they aren't just newgrass, they're nextgrass. Or more accurately, prog-grass, as exemplified by the opening track here, "Familiarity". It's an epic, 10-minute suite brimming with bold shifts in tempo, meter and mood. If it were played on synths and electric guitars instead of banjo and mandolin, it wouldn't sound out of place on an album by vintage Genesis (or at least Radiohead, whom the band covered on their last album). But the PB's still find time to strut their classical chops on a few inspired pieces by Debussy and Scriabin, and they show off their roots cred with a fluid take on the traditional tune "Boll Weevil".

Album: Punch by Punch Brothers (2008)
Genre: BlueGrass
Record Label: Nonesuch
Format: Album

Related Artists: Béla Fleck, Sarah Jarosz, Nickel Creek, Chris Thile

Music Scene: Part of the Brooklyn, NY music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with BlueGrass movement. Known for Blues style.

Tags: BlueGrass, 2000s, Album, Nonesuch


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