The two years since the release of 'The Ash & Clay' have been heady ones for The Milk Carton Kids, with accolades ranging from their featured performance in the Coen Brothers documentary "Another Day, Another Time," to winning Group of the Year at the 2014 Americana Music Awards, to a Grammy nomination for Folk Album Of The Year, to performing at the prestigious Newport Folk Festival.

Now with their third album 'Monterey,' The Milk Carton Kids have evolved their signature sound into its purest essence. Writing on the road, sitting around after shows in green rooms and hallways, the duo found themselves finishing and editing each other's songs. And for all the attention the duo receives for combining into one voice, on 'Monterey' we finally hear the singers as distinct; the acclaimed harmonies move farther apart so that the quirks and kinks of two individual identities emerge, the harmonies all the while remaining lush and soaring, their beauty all the more apparent for the showing of their scars.

'Monterey' is an album forged literally and metaphorically "on the road," an album that seems to ask how we can resolve the contradiction between the lightness of our footprint as we pass through, and the weight of those memories gathering behind us in the rearview mirror. Monterey poses this question with grace, beauty and a sly humor.