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Horseback's The Invisible Mountain
With the second Horseback LP, Jenks Miller tethers hellish vocals and aggression to an overfed serpentine blues guitar and hushed majesty.
By Robbie Mackey | 18 Nov 2009

Birds & Arrows' Starmaker
The full-length debut from this Chapel Hill duo plays like a scrapbook chronicling the love and lives of a young husband and wife.
By Andrew Ritchey | 7 Oct 2009

Midtown Dickens' Lanterns
Without sacrificing their sense of spontaneous fun, Midtown Dickens has started to take their music a bit more seriously. As a quintet on their sophomore effort, they play better, sing better, say better.
By Brian Howe | 26 Aug 2009

Calico Haunts' After All
Recorded at home in Chapel Hill by Alexander Holt Iglehart and Jenni Snyder before the band evolved into a five-piece, this is a gorgeously blurred folk record.
By Spencer Griffith | 12 Aug 2009

Bombadil's Tarpits and Canyonlands
The first time I saw Bombadil, they almost blew me away. That is, I nearly needed to leave the room because I disliked the young quartet onstage so very much.
By Grayson Currin | 8 Jul 2009

Aminal's A Will to Fight/ A Face to Fight
Instead of confining themselves to one set of genre conceits, Aminal mixes and matches, touching on art rock, garage, roots and pop across the eminently listenable 10 tracks.
By Chris Parker | 6 May 2009

The Love Language's The Love Language
This album is not particularly revolutionary or revelatory. It's just a 25-year-old with a broken heart and a hangover writing songs good enough to make you care.
By Grayson Currin | 1 Apr 2009

Whatever Brains' Soft Dick City cassette
Just as Soft Dick City feels spontaneous in its noise and spittle-lipped in its urgency, the subsequent Mt. Whatever 7" feels self-assured and somehow meticulous in its relative professionalism.
By Bryan Reed | 25 Feb 2009

The Old Ceremony's Walk on Thin Air
Walk on Thin Air is an instantly memorable record with plenty to discover and ponder with repeated listens.
By Grayson Currin | 18 Feb 2009

Have a Holly Raleigh Christmas Vol. III
The third edition of this annual Triangle treat is perhaps the series' most varied offering yet.
17 Dec 2008

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