Amongst Midway, St. Paul’s industrial smoke stacks, unrelenting pot holes, and city-wide silence that falls before 9PM, comes the melancholic sound of Sal Paradise. Forming in 2016, the alternative rock group founded itself behind the songs and lyrics of Samuel Ketcham, building their initial catalog from his solo demo “Lowest Form of Life.” After exploring the Twin Cities’s dive bars, basements, and front lawns, the band issued their first EP, “Taste of Paradise,” in the fall of 2017 with a new, redefined sound. Following up with their summertime single, “Kai’s Song,” and 2019’s “Table for Two,” the band has rooted itself in a sound that’s earnest, intimate, and lush—why don’t you dip your toes in?