The Avett Brothers Team Up With Mike Patton For Surprise Album As AVTT/PTTN

In one of the year’s most unexpected and electrifying collaborations, The Avett Brothers have joined forces with Mike Patton, legendary frontman of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle, for a new project titled AVTT/PTTN. Their self-titled debut album will arrive on November 14th, via Thirty Tigers, Ramseur Records, and Patton’s own Ipecac Recordings. The first single, Eternal Love, is out now.

The Avett Brothers + Mike Patton

The Avett Brothers + Mike Patton (Crackerfarm)

What began as an informal exchange of admiration soon grew into a genuine creative partnership. The trio—Scott and Seth Avett alongside Patton—spent months trading ideas across coasts, each reworking and reshaping the other’s sketches until fully-formed songs emerged. The result is a record that feels both familiar and entirely new: a fusion of Appalachian folk, art-rock intensity, and Patton’s signature experimental edge.

“This is what art is,” Scott Avett reflects. “This is what making is supposed to be: in secret and with no ambition.” Patton, ever the provocateur, adds: “My peculiar challenge in this was to become a long distant cousin. A brother that was orphaned. Maybe they kept him in the chicken coop or some shit. They brought him out years and years later.”

The nine-track record showcases the breadth of the collaboration. It opens with Dark Night Of My Soul, a hushed acoustic piece where Patton’s seasoned croon merges seamlessly with the Avetts’ harmonies. By contrast, The Ox Driver’s Song is a scuzzy folk stomp, while Heaven’s Breath pushes into fuzz-driven rock terrain. At the centre lies lead single Eternal Love, a meditation on the universal pull of love—both its beauty and its burden.

For the Avetts, the project represents a full-circle moment. “Mike’s part of our DNA, like the fabric of our youth,” Scott admits. “Literally, we studied him. He’s a dear friend now, but when we were younger, I was imitating him.”

Produced by Patton, Scott Avett, and GRAMMY®-winning engineer Dana Nielsen (Metallica, Rihanna), AVTT/PTTN is more than just a side project. It’s a bold collision of worlds—Patton’s boundary-pushing artistry meeting the Avetts’ roots-driven storytelling—crafted with no rules, no restrictions, and plenty of risk.

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