Balto is an American band. 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. Read mor…

Claude says:Balto's sparse, introspective indie folk came out of Dan Sheron writing through displacement—he basically lost it in Siberia and turned that into songs about leaving everything behind. You caught them briefly in spring 2017, circling back to Strangers like it was scratching some specific itch during that moment.