The Avett Brothers received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 68, which indicates "generally favorable reviews," based on 9 reviews.[3]
Critics called the album a return to form after their last full-length album Closer Than Together was poorly received upon its release in 2019. In a positive review, Timothy Monger of AllMusic wrote, "some of the songs, especially the energetic 'Love of a Girl' and 'Orion's Belt,' hark back to that heyday, but the earnest folk-pop of their later years still dominates the set."[1] Chris Conaton of PopMatters opined that the album represented a shift into "long-term career mode" for the band, arguing that the record is "solid but not spectacular," and that, "there is enough strong material here to satisfy longtime fans."[4]
