I’ve been listening to The Avett Brothers, and Mumford & Sons quite a bit.

I found the Avett Brothers when their single “I and Love and You”, was used in an episode of One Tree Hill (don’t judge me…I’ve been with that show from the beginning). I downloaded the single, and after listening to it about 60 times straight through, I went for the whole album. I haven’t regretted it since. To be fair, I am aware that this makes me somewhat of a bandwagon fan, since they have three or four independent albums that were released before that, but I’m ok with that. I do intend to collect all of their works. The thirty second clips I’ve heard on iTunes leave me wanting more. Some track I love off of this album are:

The Perfect Space

Laundry Room

Ill with want

My sister-in-law was the person who told me about Mumford & Sons, and I put of getting the album for quite a while. Finally, one day I was listening to the radio at work and their single came on, and I decided I needed to give the cd a chance. So  I got it about two and a half months ago, and have listened to little else since. A few favorites from this album are:

Timshel

Awake My Soul

Dust Bowl Dance

The two biggest reasons I’m loving these two bands/cd’s right now are:

  1. We’re kind of in the same life stage. When you take out the fact that they’re famous, and I’m writing this from my bed in my room at my mother’s house. What I mean is that we fall into the age range of early to mid twenties. Because of this, I find myself able to identify with a lot of what I think their songs are about. They’re people who are going through the same developmental stages as I am, and are having/have had some of the same types of experiences, and they’re conveying that through song.
  2. I like to play their music when I am driving on an open stretch of road. I roll my window down, blare them in my ears, and stick my arm out the window, and move it up and down and all twisty like. It makes me feel like I’m in a movie, and going through a moving on/life change scene where I’m driving off to experience whatever is next, and they are the sound track to it. Don’t judge me. You know you’ve done it too.

If you get a chance, give these bands a listen.

-Stippick