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"Yeah, it looks that way. (laughs) We really are trying to pull back and spend more days in the studio and get to where it's time to tighten the screw and really put as many recordings together as we can. Seth and I have gotten into a thing where we have too many songs that we can't focus and we have to start putting 'em to bed. Once you stay on the road that much and continue to write, if you don't complete any, it gets kinda stressful."

Is it just a matter of getting them down and out of your head, even if you don't release them?

"Totally. Maybe they will release them, maybe they won't."

The Avett Brothers will play the Belk Theatre on December 31 at 9 p.m. Tickets are sold out.