AVTT/PTTN – Eternal Love (2025)

The Avett Brothers have teamed up with none other than Mike Patton to form a collaborative project called AVTT/PTTN. They have released a lead single, “Eternal Love”, from a new album set for release on November 14, 2025. The song comes with a magnificent music video.

Louder Sound describes it as a “country ballad that’s alternately gruff and sweet,” noting a keyboard solo that sounds “like it was beamed in from outer space.” The Soundcheck frames it as a “stunning amalgamation” of Patton’s “measured yet bewitching gruffness” with The Avett Brothers’ “soft yet powerful folk-rock wiles,” calling it “rough around the edges while tugging at your heartstrings.”

In Jambands’ “The Avett Brothers / Mike Patton announce album AVTT/PTTN” coverage, the song is characterized as a “meditation that muses on the universal pull of love.” In Stereogum’s The Avett Brothers Made An Album With Mike Patton, the reviewer notes that “the lead single ‘Eternal Love’ sounds more like the Avett Brothers than like any Mike Patton project I can remember,” which implies that the Avetts’ sound is dominant, even in this hybrid.

Every day as in every dark night Its so hard to speak without lying Even birth is the ending Every life is dying Here in the spaces Here in the shadows Behind the faces Beneath the soul Everyone has it The dread of eternal love

I take my pills I drink my drinks I never stopped wondering what people think Hiding humility by never arriving I wax the mercedes I dream about driving Here in the country Up in the air Out on the streets Everywhere Everyone has it Everyone knows The dread of eternal love The dread of eternal love

The paint gets pulled off The paint gets put on We take off the best suit We have donned We walk to the ocean Full of ourselves And she takes out soul From it’s shell

And she takes us… She takes us… Oh she takes us…

Here in the spaces Here in the shadows Behind the faces Beneath the souls I take my pills I drink my drinks Forever concerned with what you think Down in the valley Up in the air In San Francisco Everywhere Everyone has it Everyone Knows The dread of eternal love The dread of eternal love The dread of eternal love