Lost‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ and found in the “City of Dreams.”

Fringe Frontier turns nostalgia into melody and regret into poetry.

Fringe Frontier is a rock band from Florida that combines the core of Americana storytelling with the indie-rock side and the retro guitar pop. Their music is a journey from the South's highways to New York's backstreets, and the tracks are filled with stories of love, loss, and time’s passage. The band boasts of their rough hooks and lyricism, which is reflected in the movie's music style, and hence their songs will be both nostalgic and raw. A song that aches like memory and glows like a city at dusk.

Fringe Frontier’s “City of Dreams” is a slow, scary, past-time reminder of the issues of ambition, time, and the bittersweet attraction of New York.

The song, with venerated guitars and soulful singing, is about the quiet pain of chasing something that is always just out of reach. The lyrics are like paintings—frost on Central Park, steaming subway, and the fading of marquees—reflecting the life that is between the past and the future. The song is like a story of a person who had a classical Americana background and is now a modern indie-rock fan whose spirit is a mix of the two. The chorus, “City cruel to dream,” is like a whisper of a secret that stays with you and tells us that it is the city that gives us wings to fly, and also unravels them ‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌slowly.