Punch Brothers - "Another New World"

"Another New World," originally by Josh Ritter, from Punch Brothers' new EP Ahoy!, available now at punchbrothers.com

[@ChanimalCrackers]

I played this song while I was preparing potatoes. Never has peeling potatoes been such an emotional affair. My food was seasoned with my emotions and the tears I cried listening to this incredible ballad. 10/10 would peel potatoes to again

[@regularfella]

LOL, this made me laugh. Most dramatic potato peeling ever.

[@genewolf7887]

HAH! I visualized the intensity of the cutting during that solo

[@PatchBOTS]

How did you end up cooking them? Boil them? Mash them? Stick them in a stew? I NEED TO KNOW!

[@isaiah95786]

PatchBOTS... my hero

[@333crypta]

punch brothers invoke tears from often. love their music.

[@sapphirewolf4031]

My history teacher was playing this over a slideshow in class today, and he openly admitted he was trying to get us to like the Punch Brothers. He succeeded.

[@aeropostale101nw]

APUSH?

[@emilybacal9063]

I enjoy that there is an automatic assumption that a teacher so awesome to try to popularize the punch brothers in class must be an APUSH teacher :)))) right on!

[@sapphirewolf4031]

APUSH indeed

[@dclarkmusic]

Sapphirewolf this song was MIND BLOWING live.

[@NU-ph1zx]

My APUSH teacher also did this several years ago.

[@csscszcsgv]

"And the sea turned the color of sky turned the color of sea turned the color of ice." Man, this is great.

[@warriorcatskid003]

And right after that is “till at last all around us was fastness one vast glassy desert of arsenic white”

[@_kaleido]

Then “and the waves that once lifted us sifted instead into drifts against Annabel’s side”

[@ishtarhernandez8406]

Such an amazing line

[@richardmckinney8954]

Its a nod to an Edgar Allen poe poem

[@4DeMS]

Such emotion and detail in ever verse. Truly breathtaking

[@elliotlamp7021]

Love the relation to Edgar Allen Poe's poem "Annabel lee"

[@ianswildoutthere]

I know right! It's incredible! I never thought I'd hear an old Edgar Allen Poe, poem, turned into a song, yet alone, one as good as this!

[@JebMcIntyre]

Every time I listen to this (which is pretty frequent) I'm overwhelmed. What a brilliant piece of music.

[@chrisfireymusic]

Went to acousticamp w/ you, pleased to see your name in the comments! I concur!

[@LaCroixVista]

This is an amazing arrangement of the song. I have to give credit to Josh Ritter. His song writing, combined with the talent of the Punch Brothers, gives us contemporary folk music.

[@TyrannosaurusTroy]

I have been listening to this song for over a year and every single time it seems richer and better than before. The mandolin's ominous percussive chops in the outro recall the chopping of the ship for firewood, and the collective rising fervor of the instruments as the song ends echoes the madness of the narrator, spinning wildly out of control as the song ends. This is Josh Ritter's song, and it is awesome, but Punch Brothers freaking GET it on all levels and this is the ULTIMATE cover.

[@sierrai.474]

Your comment made me realize that you can hear him chopping wood all throughout the mid-song instrumental after "to think back on all we had done." Amazing storytelling.

[@Isaac_L..]

I 100% agree. The replay-ability is amazing. You can listen to it 10 times in a row just for the vocals/lyrics, 10 times in a row for every single note on the wide range of stringed instruments, and 10 times in a row with it all perfectly fitted together. This song is an amazing work of art.

[@kevinferguson2201]

That Noam banjo part in the break is godly.

[@inkjazz]

For me it's the most emotionally expressive banjo solo I've ever heard in a song, and there's some good ones out there, but this and his solo in "New York" take the cake.

[@bippy201]

Between Josh Ritter’s lyrics & Punch Brother’s musicianship, this is a masterpiece.

[@bippy201]

Well said

[@justchillinghowaboutyou3174]

Lol you literally replied with your own account.

[@benjaminwhitehead4050]

​@justchillinghowaboutyou3174 Ig he's patting himself on the back lol

[@Sdcombo]

This song made me smile about the mess in my life. I still feel just as hopeless as before but knowing that I'll most likely be fine, and live out my life in some way, just not the way I hoped for, and could almost see before the opportunity vanished. I'll be fine, and it's okay to be sad. You just gotta keep fighting when it tries to hold you down.

[@ashleeviverette2308]

Build something better from the ashes and dream that it was always for the best.

[@vladimirvladislovvladivostok]

i still cant explain the importance this song has to me. i love so many songs and so many different kinds of music, but this has to be my favorite in the entire world. its so beautiful and the lyrics are incredible and it makes me cry when i listen to it. i have an incredible connection to this song. not to get all spiritual, but i swear i had a past life as a sailor and this song speaks to me so much and it was the first sign that clued me into having this past life. i learned the chords and play and sing this sometimes but it never ever could be done better than what the punch brothers have done here. incredible. (i also love this songs connection to poe's annabel lee)

[@daltonburke7422]

I'm trying to find out why I've gone 10 years without ever once hearing this masterpiece.

[@ianswildoutthere]

The first time I decided to listen to my discover weekly on Spotify, this song was on it. It's officially my favorite song of all time. It was meant to be.

[@4DeMS]

I've listened to this song at least 40 times. I heard this song yesterday...

[@Hugrolio]

I prefer this one to Josh's version because I feel the dynamics on the voice and the instrumental parts can show the emotions much deeply, on this version... This is simply touching, moving, and so so beautiful...

[@JosephTPorter]

If my doctor said, "Joseph, in seven minutes you will lose your hearing forever" I would say, "you shut up, I have a song I need to put on..."

[@patrickmaynard7553]

I just started reading Hampton Sides' book, "In the Kingdom of Ice," about the doomed voyage of the USS Jeannette, and I couldn't get this song out of my head. So here we are.

[@heal41hp]

Exquisite. He finds what he was looking for: a new world. One that doesn't need him, one post-exploration.

[@tektite0]

I haven’t heard this song in four years and I just now went through my old iPod and saw it in my playlist and when I tell you the _memories came flooding-_

[@LeoStaley]

My god. It grabs my heart, and pulls me beneath the water, and I need to breathe, but I drown, but it isn't water, it's air, and I'm safe and home and I always was. It's better than a dream. How does it do this to me?? I hold my breath dozens of time listening to this, and every time i take a new beath, i hold it, and every breath I take is relief like i've never felt, and i burned her to keep me alive every night in the warm embrace of her hull. and I can't even call it rescue when they brought me back to the old world to try to tell me that searching for the new world was worth burning mine, god this song destroys me

[@afternoond3light]

one of the coolest things ive ever heard

[@cletusdeletus]

This is an amazing cover. They do Josh Ritter proud.

[@mattburns1d3]

I don't think anybody's trying to do any disrespect to the songwriter; it's a great song. But you know what? When I saw the Punch Brothers play this song and they did the part at the end where you can HEAR A SHIP COMING APART? Holy fucking shit.

[@Andidrew4ty2]

I saw them open with this in NYC recently...i felt chills the entire time. these guys are the cutting edge right now.

[@candicegarcia5396]

THIS SONG IS ENCHANTING. YOU DID AN AMAZING JOB WITH THIS ONE

[@SeanStephensen]

This song always makes me think of Shackleton's Transatlantic voyage, namely the book Endurance's of said journey

[@MrCrazytodd]

That ending!

[@maddies7417]

my parents got me into punch brothers years and years ago, they’re been one of their favorite bands since i can remember. i also have a deep love of dark romanticism and edgar allan poe so this is admittedly one of my favorite songs of theirs :))) so good, been good for years and will be for years to come

[@jamiew3074]

That banjo solo...wowoo :)

[@komranbehbehani6379]

This reminds me of a flip book the banjo like chops a flipping of a page and the harmonica like instrument draws me to a wavelike visual being changed every banjo chord played! It’s neat. Like a timeline picture given through a song.

[@Cyphxrdior]

I thought I was the only one in 2020

[@foxboyo]

I remember my band director showed the guitar class this song, telling us about how lyrics can really mean multiple things depending on how you look at them (he also knew one of the punch brothers, I think the bassist). When he played it I didn't really understand it. He quizzed us on the multiple meanings and at the end of the day, I listened to this song once again when I was alone. This song made me cry and remember memories that now, I am grateful I got to relive.

[@ishtarhernandez8406]

Was your director Matt Cmiel?

[@adott55]

11 years ago.. I found it about 2 years ago and I listen to it all the time and every time it still gives me shivers. This shit is incredible. I came to the Punch Brothers because of their radiohead covers, but fuck if this isn’t radiohead quality on its own. I adore this song.

[@dzinermom]

This cover is so passionately retold -- incredibly illustrated in Chris and the band's hands… fabulous, absolutely fabulous. I can't wait to (hopefully) see it live someday...

[@calypsomcknight5445]

I saw it live...I almost died.

[@t.saldana8951]

If this song has ever made you cry, you'll sob at the live performance... Take tissues

[@HaydenBarrow]

Wow. Tears listening to this. I don't love a ship like the man in this song but when he says "pretend that the search for another new world was well worth the burning of mine"...it got to me.

[@joeshmuck9683]

The first time I heard this show was live at one of their shows. I literally gasped when it transitioned from the solo to chopping up the ship. Powerful stuff

[@LightFangX]

Why have I not heard of the punch brothers before today? Just why T_T Their music....I can't describe it!

[@LeoStaley]

Thanks to Grant Sanderson of 3blue1brown for recommending Punch Brothers in his AMA months ago.

[@dclarkmusic]

Possibly the best song ever written.

[@namdiez062]

The first time I ever heard this song was when PB played a show at Hendrix College in 2013, and it honestly made me tear up. All hail Punch Brothers.

[@549heydrew]

I don't even listen to this genre, but even I know this is a good song

[@shanefera]

This is the kind of song that is played at a crossroads to beat the devil in a contest. After this cover, I went to listen to the original, and it didn't have the magic for me that this one did. I heard this one first, and it is a goosebumps inducing production. It ranks near, if not at the top, of my list of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

[@swordwhale1]

Heard this on Prairie Home Companion... and they didn't give the ending... took awhile to find this... it's awesome. Barring disaster and more hurricanes, I'll be sailing on Privateer Lynx this weekend... no fear, we're staying on the Chester River... wait, there's a place called Devil's Reach there...

[@swordwhale1]

and anyone who's sailed on a tall ship knows they have souls...

[@Sarah-fk9jj]

This was incredible at rockygrass under the july stars, surrounded by mountains.

[@Thebirdandthebear]

The Punch Brothers covering Josh Ritter... It doesn't get much better.

[@Vesaniah4]

Just got introduced to this... This is really beautiful and will go ahead and buy the cds and wait for a tour. I just love it when I find new music... best feeling in the world.

[@toddster8793]

Just wait until you see them in concert; mind boggling ability. Any one of them could keep you entertained for an hour just playing their instrument alone.

[@Isaac_L..]

Vesaniah4 I feel like there’s a pun to be had for your “best feeling in the world” line. But I’m terrible at puns.

[@aerovexa8794]

Getting chills down my spine. This is played so well. I’ve been listening to Chris Thile for years now, I love how everybody in the group can play with such passion. I love Phosphorescent Blues but this, this is a masterpiece of time and effort. I much rather prefer of this over the rap garbage and stuff that’s popular. Amazing song.

[@Lazarus131s3]

Theres something about songs like these that is just beautiful. Its not a shanty, but rather, a tale, bittersweet or just bitter, i love them

[@mistimclaughlin7419]

O my my O heck yeah! I am in love with your music and style! Such swag! Really Really Talented Artists indeed! I'm hooked! I've got to catch you guys live when you're close to East Tennesse! Light & Love! and God bless!

[@andreasdaub9219]

O.O Love at first sight. . . I only had to hear the first few lines to know it would be amazing.... And I was right! This song is just.... Perfect in every way.

[@Voltanaut]

I'd've expected a song like this to pop out of a Stan Rogers album. God! This is awesome! So damn awesome! I know it's a cover, but wow.

[@AppalachianCascadian]

Now that would be something to hear!

[@adamyoung6797]

@Reagan Hedquist If you're typing out a colloquialism you don't've to be gramatically correct.

[@SecksyMan]

One of the best recordings of music ever created

[@BiggusMaccus]

Beautiful. Just... beautiful.

[@NikkiSchultz12]

This song is poetry.

[@jacksonaho6520]

This is one of my favorite songs by a long shot.

[@Ellestara]

This gives me chills from my head to my toes!!!

[@vishank7]

This is very much like The Rime of the ancient mariner 😍 And I love it!

[@chrisyjhere1881]

My English teacher played this to show the comparison between them

[@salmonking007]

These lyrics differ from those I've found online: The leading lights of the age all wondered among themselves what I would do next, After all that I'd found, in my travels around the world, was there anything left? "Gentlemen, " I said, "I've studied the charts, and if what I am thinking is right, There's another new world, at the top of the world, for the first one who breaks through the ice, " And I looked 'round the room, in that way I once had, and I saw that they wanted belief, So I said, "All I've got are my guts and my God, " then I paused, "and the Annabel Lee." Oh, the Annabel Lee, and I saw their eyes shine, the most beautiful ship in the sea, My Nina, my Pinta, my Santa Maria, my beautiful Annabel Lee That spring we set sail, the crowd waved from shore, and on board the crew waved their hats, But I'd never had family, just the Annabel Lee, so I never had cause to look back. I just set the course north, and I'd study the charts, and towards dawn I drifted toward sleep, And I'd dream of the fine, deep harbor I'd find past the ice, for my Annabel Lee. After that it got colder. The world got quiet. It was never quite day or quite night. And the sea turned the color of sky turned the color of sea turned the color of ice. Till at last all around us was vastness, one glassy desert of arsenic white, And the waves that once lifted us, shifted instead into drifts against Annabel's sides. And the crew gathered closer, at first for the warmth, but each day would bring a new set Of tracks in the snow, leading over the edge of the world, til I was the only one left. And then it gets cloudy, but seems that I laid there for days , or maybe for months (Oh) But Annabel held me, the two of us happy, To think back on all we had done We talked of the other new worlds We'd discover as she gave up her body to me, As I chopped up her mainsail for timber, I told her of all that we still had to see. As the frost turned her moorings To nine-tails and the wind lashed her sides in the cold, I burned her to keep me alive every night in the loving embrace of her hold. And I won't call it rescue, That brought me back here to the old world to drink and decline, And pretend that the search for another new world was well worth the burning of mine. But sometimes at night, in my dreams, Comes the singing of some unknown tropical bird, And I smile in my sleep, Thinking Annabel Lee's finally made it to another new world. Yeah, sometimes at night in my dreams comes the singing of some unknown tropical bird, And I smile in my sleep, thinking Annabel Lee's finally made it to another new world.

[@EcoNBeBop]

This is the cover; the original's lyrics are slightly different

[@spotonlevel5629]

I was handed this song by a distant brother. Thankyou .. beautiful....

[@lizlong4996]

This song was the reason I went to ROMP in Owensboro KY. :)

[@babycakes2077]

Wow, my spin instructor played these guys today - Brooklyn made ❤️🙏🏽😂 me too!

[@Trimtram94]

Tried to listen to this while doing something else. I failed. I am enthralled.

[@vigilaki2]

this is amazing........

[@TheWeemaster]

This song is so haunting and beautiful. With lyrics that paint pictures in the mind and tell one hell of a story, this version is simply wonderful!

[@huntergawande8673]

I cry like 4 times during this

[@saritahira3658]

this is absolutely gorgeous. love the song and love them even more.

[@colelewis7092]

About two years ago my parents got me into Punch Brothers and when I say I listened to them everyday after I mean it.

[@misterkewlaid5420]

So I saw Punch Brothers live last night. This is my new favorite song from these guys. It's so sad and ominous and intense.

[@misterkewlaid5420]

Only yours ;)

[@DarthSpidey6]

Saw them perform this too Wed, and it was amazing. You could almost see/feel the ship burning at the end of the song. I loved the Ritter version, but they brought this song to a whole other level.

[@mattburns1d3]

Darrin Menzo I know, right? When they did it live the hair on my neck stood up. You could feel the ship coming apart.

[@diggerdogadventures976]

So gorgeous. I get chills every time.

[@arielross3929]

I walked down the aisle to the instrumental. I love this song. I love Poe. Perfection. 💕

[@roughchill]

chills

[@noneyabidniss4763]

This is one of the most beautifully written songs I have ever heard. Chris Thile's story telling talent is so far beyond anything I have scanned in tomes and lore. This alliterative composition is essentially the reason he was the perfect candidate for the MacArthur award.

[@SamHandwiches]

+Noneya Bidniss this is a cover

[@AirplaneJunkie82]

Chris Thile is a great writer but he certainly did not write this one. Josh Ritter did.

[@chimpansi2]

wow, this is Very good..!😮

[@danalever164]

I have been looking for this song for two damn days.

[@rodneychaney2809]

That bass string...sounds like the hull humming and bending through the arctic seas.

[@rodneychaney2809]

Confirmed

[@accountnumber90]

I've been waiting for this for a long time! Excellent!

[@caramason56]

So beautiful 😊🎶❤️😊🎶❤️

[@Alora18Lind]

goosebumps. I would love to learn the mandolin melody.

[@KadeeJo]

I'm in love with this.

[@juliannapickens8724]

Beautiful.

[@MissWinkle555]

I had an edgar Allan Poe book a couple of decades ago and Annabelle lee had a place in my memories. Its a beautiful twist on that

[@niallav]

Brilliant! So excited for this EP!

[@12TonTanker]

lets all go to the center of the earth, a hollow world we stand on.

[@neilferguson2540]

Great song...chilling. ..Josh Ritter also great bravo

[@raghadk7415]

perfect

[@mathewsmith8405]

love this song

[@ZachAshcraft]

to each their own - i think this version is vastly superior

[@fakename3344]

Was there another version?

[@ZachAshcraft]

@@fakename3344 Josh Ritter wrote and recorded it originally. His version is nice too

[@fakename3344]

@@ZachAshcraft Thank's, amigo.

[@nelson21570]

nice.I'm not into Bluegrass music ,but I like Punch Brothers.Very Talented

[@PatyLatorre]

Oh my gosh... I think I'm in love with this band

[@BardofCornwall]

So happy they've got a new album.

[@talonloglisci5319]

Chris thile makes mandolins do things that seem like magic born of a dubious agreement made in the woods under the oldest tree anyone has ever laid eyes on

[@calstancill]

I'm here from autoplay from Future Folk. Never heard of these guys but sounds good! Feels like I fell down a rabbit hole.

[@MrNick131313]

Just saw them live last night in Madison WI. Just great !

[@maxwellvandenberg2977]

This always reminds me of the end of the original Frankenstein book, and vice versa.

[@MrStrangeSensation]

I don't always love the Punch Brothers' music, sometimes it's a little too heavy on the bluegrass for me. But I respect the hell out of them as musicians and I love what they're doing. That being said, this is easily one my favorite songs ever. I love everything about this.

[@CassieG.]

oh my god... I loved this song since I heard it by Josh, and I was blown away when I had the chance to hear you guys play it for your opening show in Tokyo this month. Never thought I could experience it live. I just wish I had the chance to say hello and thank you so much!! -a happy Oberlin alum in Tokyo

[@genequist3859]

If you can't relate to this song on an emotional level you're a sociopath.

[@caseycrocker]

Great fn story. Excellent storytelling!

[@davieburke]

fantastic 💙🌊

[@RainaBedford]

beautiful.

[@blabloobblubb]

you could make a good novel out of this song