Brooklyn based Inland Traveler sew together gorgeously layered, future-facing folk songs. On their recent single "Paths Are Frozen" (streaming) Gerald Edward, Katie Locke, and Lucas Madrazo share vocals, creating valleys of sound which rise to crescendo with every chorus, each as infectious as the last. The song harbors an alt-country lilt, not just in tone and instrumentation, but also in its narrative inclination. The song is about time itself, measured in summers, transient in the present, and cemented in the past. "Paths Are Frozen," like its subject, is melancholy in retrospect, but worthy of repeated listens. – @emilioherce
