All Ashore

Fantastic. Their best album. Such a unique and amazing sound!

If you took bluegrass, jazz, rock and whiskey and mixed it all up, you might get something like the Punch Brothers. I love that I can hear so much depth in these songs.

I LOVE Punch Brothers, but this album in my opinion is sub par. Punch Brothers are a great band, but this album had a feel of an experimental album rather than what I have come to expect from this band. I hope that in the future their albums are better.

My goodness. This is the kind of album that you can just sit and listen to, and it’s at least as entertaining as watching a good film. Talent, craft, and emotional expressional all meeting at once. Truly beautiful and captivating.

They're not the Radiohead of Bluegrass. They're not the U2 of classical music. They're finally just Punch Brothers. These arrangements are dense, weighty, and yet they never sink. It's easy to listen to music this difficult. So much detail to enjoy stuffed into these nine tracks. I have listened to their music casually before, but now the hooks are sunk deep into me. What a gift.

Political trash ruins yet another (insert film, actor, song etc) I'm not mad I'm just disappointed. Well no. I'm mad. Mad that I funded another pathetic attempt by former talent to pander. Whether it's movies or music it seems the new trend is to take a political opinion that the general populace holds and pretend you're the #resistance. It's not like I even want my entertainment to be in favor of my political opinion. Keeps politics out of entertainment. It's divisive, it's obnoxious and if you want to pretend "it's too important of an issue to stay silent! We have to do something and use our platform to get the message out!" then you go ahead and pretend but you know you're a fraud and that's enough for me. I really love the punch brothers and I was foolish enough to think they'd be above this pathetic pandering but I was wrong. Shame too because the vocals and instrumental work is fantastic as always but it's all in service of nothing. What you have here is a waste of talent. What you have here is instrumental and vocal brilliance delivering political commentary on the level of a sitcom episode that ran during the election. The punch brothers artistic integrity is now on the level of a sitcom. 2016 really was the worst year ever. It inspired artists and talented individuals to preach to the masses in favor of entertaining us and creating art. Such a shame.

I saw these guys live this week and as a guitar player it blows my mind how good they are compared to how these very intricate albums are on tape. They nail it - no questions asked. As much as they'd hate this most likely - I think Phosphorescent Blues will ultimately be known as their primary master work. It defined this genre. This album is very very good, and I believe true fans of the bands wanderlust, desire to hit the heart and head, and musicianship will find expected satisfactions here. Once you climb a mountain, you can't climb it again for the first time - so they climbed the mountain next to the Phosporescent Blues, and look back on their lives and all of ours which have gotten more complicted and angst ridden in the last couple years. I see this as a self produced evolution - and nuanced expressions of the times.

Chris Thile and co. are masters at their respective crafts, and “All Ashore” is no exception. It’s bold, ambitious, political, and exactly the kind of music that this industry needs to be making right now. Punch Brothers continue to impress!

Killer band. Killer album.

Really enjoy the scope of their ambition. Some of the albums have gotten there, and some have a few high points but otherwise leave me cold. This one is one of the good ones. Diverse, energetic, heartfelt, and most of all . . . the songs really work and the instrumentals bring the muso energy. Very much recommended. They've truly pushed past their origins in "newgrass" and now have created a sort of genre all to themselves.