Kristin Daelyn is a folk artist and fingerstyle guitarist from Philadelphia. Her debut album, Gardens & Plantings, was out in 2022. With Beyond the Break, her second full-length (out next February 28, via Orindal Records), her soaring, spectral voice sits higher in the mix, and her lyrics take center stage, incorporating imagery based on her love of poetry and a creative practice that draws from philosophical texts and exploration of the natural world. The songs themselves, Daelyn explains, are often designed to create inhabitable landscapes for the listener, an approach noticeable in the open-ended language of “Longing.” With this newly visceral approach, Daelyn brings to focus her evolution as a guitarist. Focused as much on melody as the texture of her playing, she favors chords that leave suggestive space between each note, dissonance that never quite resolves and adds a tender shadow to her major-key melodies. In the instrumental title track, she plays in collaboration with Dan Knishkowy (Adeline Hotel, Jackie West) on guitar and Danny Black (Good Old War, Gregory Alan Isakov) on pedal steel, resulting in a mood that blends the open-road psychedelia of William Tyler with the dreamy travelogues of Julie Byrne.