The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers

The seventh album Punch Brothers - and its first comprising all instrumental tunes as well as its first with fiddle player Brittany Haas, who joined the quintet in 2023 - features eight new original compositions by the Grammy-winning band as well as three traditional songs they arranged. The album's title is more than a play on words: without lyrics to guide the listener, these are stories, impressions, and emotions communicated entirely with strings through melody, harmony, rhythm, and a literary sense of musical structure. For a band known for pushing acoustic music into unexpected places, going fully instrumental may be the most adventurous move they have made yet.