Punch Brothers are back in their adopted hometown of New York City, where they first crafted the songs on their new album, Antifogmatic, for a show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. There's much to celebrate: the album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Heatseekers Chart of new artists. The band will discuss and perform songs from Antifogmatic on WNYC's Soundcheck this afternoon.
Punch Brothers are back in their adopted hometown of New York City, where they first crafted the songs on their new album, Antifogmatic, for a show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn tonight. There's much to celebrate, as news has just come in of the new album's debuting at No. 1 on Billboard's Heatseekers Chart of artists never before in the Top 100 and No. 2 on the Folk chart and the Bluegrass chart, the latter just one slot behind Dierks Bentley's new album, which, in fact, features a performance from Punch Brothers.
While in New York today, the band is stopping by the studios of New York public radio station WNYC, 93.9 FM, for an appearance on the latest episode of Soundcheck. The band will talk with guest host Jace Clayton about Antifogmatic and perform a few songs from the new album. Tune in to Soundcheck on the radio in New York at 93.9 FM or streaming online worldwide at wnyc.org starting at 1 PM ET this afternoon.
Time Out New York, in a preview of tonight's show in Williamsburg, says that Punch Brothers shares the "exuberance and effortless virtuosity" of band member Chris Thile's earlier work with Nickel Creek. What's more, Thile's "plaintive voice and confessional lyrics cut straight to the heart." For more information on tonight's show and the rest of the band's upcoming tour dates, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
The Herald of Scotland says that, post-Nickel Creek, Thile has forged "a fascinating new route through his musical roots without leaving his origins on the Californian bluegrass scene completely behind." Reviewer Rob Adams finds that, in Punch Brothers, "five of America’s hottest young bluegrass pickers work as a chamber quintet with tendencies towards Bartók, gypsy music, sophisticated acoustic pop and Appalachian hollers, to create a scintillating ensemble." Their new album, says Adams, features "bracing, emotionally raw, tenderly vulnerable, intricate and defiantly footstompin’ songs." Read more at heraldscotland.com.
Punch Brothers had developed the songs on Antifogmatic over impromptu sessions at The Living Room on New York's Lower East Side. You can watch the quintet perform the album track "This Is the Song" live at The Living Room, off the DVD in the deluxe edition of Antifogmatic, at nonesuch.com/media. To pick up a copy of the album, head to the Nonesuch Store.
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