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The Avett Brothers release their high-anticipated new album, The Third Gleam, recorded as a trio with bassist Bob Crawford joining the brothers. The eight-song release delves into isolation, incarceration and injustice, as well as resilience, redemption and love, offering a gleam of hope in a dark and uncertain time. Sickness, in body and in mind, are old news for our species and, in truth, have found us susceptible throughout our complex history. The Third Gleam is a whisper of an offering in a time of blaring considerations. The songs were not informed specifically by the urgent and pivotal concepts which are now center stage; however, as these factors have been and will remain a part of us as a whole, independent of a specific moment in history, the songs of this particular piece do connect somehow to this particular time. "Isolation, resilience, frustration, confusion, contemplation and hope are here, both in regards to our own lives and as a consideration of the human experience in general. There is humor and love, both for life itself and as it binds a pairing of people. We touch on historical prejudice, faith, economic disparity, gun violence, incarceration, redemption and, as is increasingly standard with our records, stark mortality." - The Avett Brothers