Closer Than Together

Closer Than Together
Album by The Avett Brothers
Released:	TBD
Label:	TBD
Album chronology
Previous:	True Sadness

The Avett Brothers have publicly stated they are working on their tenth studio album. No release date or title has yet been announced.

It will be their thirteenth album overall, not including promotional EPs or live albums. This will be the fifth Avett Brothers album produced by Rick Rubin on his American Recordings label.

It may be The Third Gleam based on an on-stage announcement by Seth Avett in September 2017. But unlike the two previous Gleam albums the full band was present at the studio recording sessions in Malibu.

News

In a June 2017 interview, Seth Avett stated:

“Because the family life has gotten much more segmented for Scott and I, we have to be much more purposeful about time because our days are so full with our families. (Creating new music) is going on for sure — we’re a few sessions in. I don’t know if the recording process will be for a next record or just getting on the same page, but the answer is absolutely, we are well into it and just getting to the point where we’re getting pretty fired up. It’s just a question of logistics. The songs will not leave us alone.”— Seth Avett

At their Memphis concert on September 22, 2017, Seth said they have been talking a lot about making a Third Gleam album. During an interview at the Pilgrimage Festival on September 24, 2017 when asked about their upcoming tenth album, Scott said:

“We're working on it now. The process has begun.”— Scott Avett

On December 21, 2017 in an interview before their annual New Year's Eve show, Scott Avett stated recording sessions are slated for February 2018 in Malibu with Rick Rubin:

“We’ve already completed about 12 songs we talked with Rick about, and we’re trying to double that up with what’s going on now. We’re trying to do more recording of demos at home in hopes of finding a more natural beginning, a tone that’s more calm with no travel involved. Once we go off to Malibu or wherever, our families aren’t there, so it’s a different approach and mentality. The emotional work needs to be done before the mechanical work of making something great. So we roll out of bed, do the normal things at home and then wander over to the table or the studio and let it flow as naturally as possible.”— Scott Avett

The week of February 12, 2018 several members of the band shared social media images of the Shangri-La recording studio in Malibu, California. On July 27, 2018 Joe Kwon shared on Instagram that the album was still in the recording stage.

Potential songs

New since True Sadness

• "C-Sections and Railroad Trestles"
• "Moment in Time"
• "Neapolitan Sky"
• "Orion's Belt"
• "Roses and Sacrifice"
• "Untitled Three"
• "Untitled Four"

From the True Sadness sessions but unreleased

• "The Method Actor"
• "Rejects in the Attic"
• "Roof Over My Past"
• "Spell of Ambition"
• "This Connection"

Long shots

• "California"
• "Late in Life"
• "Love is a Stranger"
• "More of You"
• "Pretty Girl From Here" (Instrumental)
• "Solomon"
• "Untitled One"
• "Untitled Two"