It's dusk. A faint corona of orange, yellow, and purple peeks over the distant Adirondacks. The heat is on but all the windows are down. Headlights lead every curve, their bold light a stark transition to the softness of the sunset. Nature is all one color now. The sound of cicadas is quieter now. The tires don't seem to make a sound. No other cars are on the road either. Even the wind whipping strands of damp hair is silent. The smell of lake water lingers on the towel wrapped around, but the sweet air blowing through the clover and the goldenrod and the cattails and the ripe sumac and the wood sorrel and the milkweed and the bluet and the wild rye drowns it out. "Summer's End", a one off single by Narrow Shoulders, aka Vermont-producer Zach Pollakoff, attempts to paint that picture. Originally a demo made on a plane out of recycled samples from previous sessions and releases, it morphed and evolved through repeat listens on drives like the above. Clarinets, flute, guitars, piano all played by Pollakoff mesh with programmed drums and field recordings of intimate fidget sounds, fingers on a table, anxiously playing with a necklace, and more to create a unique melange that could only be Narrow Shoulders. Over time, the weight of the track grew and grew until it was too heavy to not share with the world at large.