“Youth, some important golden ember of it, can be held onto, at least in the confines of a Balsa Gliders album. Life is lived within these songs. Cars are driven, sneakers are worn thin, beaches are trampled, waves are plunged into, loves are found and lost. But time, remarkably, is captured in a jar and preserved.”

- Allí Marshall, Mountain Xpress

 

Years ago, The Balsa Gliders stopped listening to indie rock and started playing it.

 

The Gliders are a loose collective of North Carolinians who formed friendships in Chapel Hill during the 1990s. Their spirited live shows recall some of the anthemic indie rock from the ‘90s that made the Triangle famous. The melodies echo local bands from Let’s Active to Portastatic to even Archers of Loaf.