The Record, a Raleigh-based group initially assembled from chance meetings and the remains of other bands, is both the catalyst and the outcome of a group of out-of-towner guys bonding over beers, love of music, and mutual solidarity in the experience of being 20-something transplants to an area that can play favorites to older and more indigenous bonds. Their music draws inspiration from navigating relationships and new adulthood while looking back with nostalgia to a love of 1990s alternative rock.

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