Following an ill-fated six-month stint as a copy editor and telemarketer in Moscow, Russia, guitarist and songwriter Dan Sheron lost his marbles and went to Siberia, where he wrote a cycle of songs describing the life he’d decided to leave behind. That winter (2010), Balto laid those songs on its first record, October’s Road, in a single blustery day in a Brooklyn basement and went on to tour the United States & Canada for the first time. Critics from outlets such as - AP magazine, Folk Radio UK, and Slowcoustic - praised the debut as an undiscovered songwriting gem of 2011, with features on several best-of-the-year lists. Beats per minute wrote "October's Road may just be the best album I've heard by an unsigned n... read more