New York City is a loud place. Trains & planes, sidewalk arguments & rooftop celebrations -- it's one big rumbling concrete ecosystem. And it made recording Lo & Behold, the debut EP from NH-born, NYC-based folk singer J. Alan Schneider, a real challenge. To achieve an honest album, not sterilized by studio silence, but not muddied by city swells, he had to relocate to graciously lent apartments that were more insulated than his own from Astoria, NY's elevated N-train. The result? An apartment recording that sounds like, well, you're sitting in an NYC apartment.

Lo & Behold is available now at all digital outlets.