track listing
1. Bitter at Best 2. My Only Enemy 3. Before the Storm 4. Work and Winter 5. Early Sign 6. I Won't Let You Down 7. Cindy's Song 8. Seventeen 9. Carolina 10. Waltz No.1 11. Shattering

Magnet - "delicate, haunted music...Bragg is someone worth getting close to"

Delusions of Adequacy - "delivering the goods"

Independent Weekly (NC) - "Think Elliott Smith with twice the love"

Charleston City Paper - "may leave some amazed and entranced"

The Post's Express - "He's the unassuming one...breaking your heart."

Paste Magazine - "Bragg's folk chamber group issues a remarkable statement without raising the volume"

Lost at Sea - "it is perfect in and of itself: a work that delights in, and cautiously anticipates, all things looming on the horizon"

Copper Press - "infectiously catchy...chock full of memorable ballads and gentle pop confections"

Washington Post - "Bragg and his band, the Terminals, played a show that justified the buzz, crafting a brief but sturdy set of low-key songs that emphasized their leader's fingerpicked acoustic guitar and sharply drawn lyrics"

Losing Today (UK) - "blurry eyed candy pop, from tiny acorns come emotionally towering gems that build slowly but surely into trembling classics in the making"

Pitchfork - "The work of a bright student... Bragg and the Terminals ma not have pioneered their sound, but they sound perfectly at home all the same"

Orlando Sentinel - "mixture of youthful idealism and old spirit" 4 stars

Salt Lake City Weekly - "a debut ripe with beauty"

Slug Magazine - "Bragg is very comfortable crafting nostalgic songs with a stunning, precise, minimalist approach...already made my Top 10 for the year"

Washington City Paper - "a set of sad-eyed folk pop that bore similarities to work by Nick Drake and Elliott Smith"