I and Love and You

The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
Critic Score
Based on 18 reviews
2009 Ratings: #309 / 923
Year End Rank: #21
User Score
Based on 78 ratings
2009 Rank: #117
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
Consequence of Sound
As long as they keep doing what they’ve done so well: singing honestly about the journey — the roads they take, the people they know, the beauty and disappointment met…and for goodness sake, busting a few banjo strings along the way — we’re along for the ride.
80
PopMatters

While the Avett Brothers have had a productive run going on a decade, I and Love and You's new elegant musical direction and very strong set of new songs indicate that they are band that is indeed just getting revved up.

70
SPIN

More than anything, I and Love and You proves how miscast the Brothers were as folkies, because their ambitions are so much larger.

MasterCrackfox
61

Having now landed a major label deal with Rick Rubin, it should have been expected that The Avett Brothers would then have the opportunity to establish and expand their sound. For some the shift into a grander place worked, and for others it seemed to elicit disappointment that the groups rough edges had been refined. I guess you could say I fall somewhere in the middle of these camps.

I and Love and You seems to work for me a little more than their previous record, Emotionalism, because the ... read more

SerenaInTheory
100

This album is an inluential part of my life. My dad introduced me to it when it came out and I wasnt yet old enough to really enjoy much outside of Kick Drum Heart, but once I got older, everything fell into place. It was like it was waiting for me.

Anyway, phenomenal alnum by a phenomenal band.

Crystal_Diancie
100

Words cannot describe how important this album is to me. It has influenced my music taste forever, and is just so fucking good. Absolutely check it out.

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