Punch Brothers will release their new album, Who’s Feeling Young Now?, February 14, 2012, on Nonesuch Records. Completed over three weeks at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, the record was produced by Grammy Award winner Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse). Who’s Feeling Young Now? is the follow-up to 2010’s Grammy-nominated Antifogmatic, about which the New York Times said: “Punch Brothers have the unplugged lineup of an old-fashioned string band … But their music is as radical as … new acoustic music can be.” The band begins a tour in support of Who’s Feeling Young Now? February 17, with stops in Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. See below for the currently scheduled dates and visit nonesuch.com/on-tour for additional details and ticket links. Stay tuned for more dates and an exclusive album pre-order to be announced soon.

Ten songs from Who’s Feeling Young Now? were written by Punch Brothers, with the band’s friend Josh Ritter co-writing lyrics on two tunes (“Hundred Dollars” and “New York City”). Additionally, the album contains the band’s interpretations of Radiohead’s “Kid A” and the Swedish group Väsen’s “Flippen.” See below for the complete track list. You can listen to the album's opening track, “Movement and Location,” which received its world premiere yesterday on Paste, and download it for free here:

Punch Brothers was formed in 2006 by mandolinist/singer Chris Thile with four other virtuosic musicians: fiddler Gabe Witcher, banjo player Noam Pikelny, bassist Paul Kowert, and guitarist Chris “Critter” Eldridge. Their first Nonesuch record, Punch, was released in 2008 and combined elements of the band’s many musical interests, including indie rock, folk, jazz, bluegrass, and classical music. In 2009 they all moved to New York City and began a regular, standing-room-only, residency at the Living Room, trying out new songs as well as inspired covers; these shows ultimately spawned Antifogmatic.

“Who’s Feeling Young Now? is less evasive than Antifogmatic and Punch,” said Thile. “And I feel like part of that is us becoming more comfortable with who we are as a band, and me becoming more comfortable with who I am as a singer.”

Who’s Feeling Young Now? Track List:
1. Movement and Location
2. This Girl
3. No Concern of Yours
4. Who’s Feeling Young Now?
5. Clara
6. Flippen
7. Patchwork Girlfriend
8. Hundred Dollars
9. Soon or Never
10. New York City
11. Kid A
12. Don’t Get Married Without Me

Immediately after finishing their album in October, Punch Brothers joined Paul Simon for a month of US dates, during which the band regularly accompanied Simon for his encores. The tour capped off a busy year for the band and its members: in addition to its year-round touring, Punch Brothers performed on Late Night with David Letterman with Steve Martin, on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion, and as part of T Bone Burnett’s Speaking Clock Revue concert; the band was nominated for two Grammys; Thile wrote and performed on the album The Goat Rodeo Sessions with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Stuart Duncan, with whom he also appeared on The Colbert Report and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno; Pikelny released a solo album, produced by Witcher and featuring Eldridge, Thile, and fellow banjo player and friend Steve Martin; and Thile released Sleep with One Eye Open, a duet album of traditional bluegrass tunes with guitarist/singer Michael Daves, which was just nominated for a Grammy.

PUNCH BROTHERS ON TOUR

* supporting Amos Lee
** w/ Carolina Chocolate Drops
† w/ Loudon Wainwright III
†† w/ Aoife O'Donovan