Away from the World is the eighth studio album by Dave Matthews Band (DMB), released on September 11, 2012.
The album is their first since 2009's Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King. The album's title comes from a line in the song "The Riff": "Sitting in a box / away from the world out there." According to Matthews, it relates to the idea that we are born and die alone and that "our body is our box."
Steve Lillywhite produced Away from the World, which marks his first released studio album with the band since 1998's Before These Crowded Streets. A series of failed sessions with Lillywhite led to the leaked Lillywhite Sessions in 2000 and Lillywhite's departure from the band's work. DMB and Lillywhite recorded the album in a Seattle studio beginning in early January 2012,and production on the album finished in May.
In addition to the 11 songs that made the album, one other song was attempted during the sessions, but the band did not complete that song.
