transformission’s top 20 albums of ‘08: #14 – iv by chatham county line
- Filed under: music
- Date: Dec 22,2008
IV is the most rewarding offering from Chatham County Line to date. It’s a little bit bigger and a little more elaborate than its predecessors, but it’s an incremental step toward something more expansive…It’s essentially timeless… – Pitchfork
…IV happens to be a quiet indie revolution in the field of edgy yet traditional bluegrass…The themes which pervaded Chatham County Line’s earlier records—poverty, social justice, romantic heartache and that old country blues staple, trains—are again present, only this time they’ve woven some subtle grassed-up pop and a little more kick-a** rock than recently into the fabric of their literate story-songs. – PopMatters
Over four albums, this quartet from Raleigh, North Carolina, has retraced the evolution of bluegrass, beginning as a traditional mountain-music group and arriving with IV as a bold and beautiful acoustic pop outfit still faithful to their roots…Even the sweetest pop numbers…are constructed around vocal melodies supported by close-harmony singing and arrangements that owe as much to the Stanley Brothers as to the Rolling Stones. – The Phoenix
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