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California Rock ‘N Roll quartet Balto makes timeless, bone shaking songs - attitude and groove, joy and ferocity. They are the kind of band that is unafraid to bleed for their craft. Card-Carrying cultists of the Great American Song, the Great American Groove, and the Great American Highway. Young, lifelong working musicians with thousands of shows between them - Sheldon Reed, pounding his drums, face contorting with concentration, occasional Jarrett -like moan escaping into the overhead mics. Mr. Adam Ditt on bass guitar, waist-length hair swaying, fingers skating on the lower frets, sounding like The Who’s John Entwistle after a decade of peyote-fueled wanderings in the Sonoran Desert. Tristan Lake Leabu, long limbs askew, infectiously joyous, eminently maximal, jumping between the twin necks of a big SG. Dan Sheron, right hand bleeding on a telecaster, blowing his voice out on one more song before the night is through. The band has spent the last year recording at the studios of Riley Geare (Unknown Mortal Orchestra, La Luz) and Kim Bullard (Elton John, Yes), as well as their home studio. The tracks have been mixed by Sean O’Brien (Matt Berninger, Moses Sumney) and mastered by Howie Weinberg (Nirvana, Beastie Boys, Herbie Hancock). The upcoming album feels like a culmination of their ambitions as recording artists - Echos of the British Invasion & the American Swamp tangle with touches of Petty, Zevon, & Big Star, exploring the absurdity of living in the decline.