The Avett Brothers - Closer Than Together (2019) [Hi-Res]

In a lengthy mission statement announcing the album’s release, Seth Avett said the band “didn’t make a record that was meant to comment on the sociopolitical landscape that we live in. We did, however, make an album that is obviously informed by what is happening now on a grander scale all around us… because we are a part of it and it is a part of us. Closer Than Together is a record of obvious American origin – a creation that fittingly could only come about through hard work, measured freedom, awe-inspiring landscapes, and perfectly flawed individualism.
“The Avett Brothers will probably never make a sociopolitical record,” Avett added. “But if we did, it might sound something like this.”

The album’s first single is called “High Steppin'”. In the song’s spoken word interlude, Avett notes, “You can only live one day at a time, only drive one hot rod at a time, only say one word at a time, only think one thought at a time….” In keeping with this theme, the accompanying video stars Scott Avett as a “rhinestone cowboy” and Seth Avett as his grim reaper of a passenger. Watch it below.