Peter McConnell digs into the weirder corners of Raz's psychic adventures here. "Cosmic I" opens the album with Jack Black singing, which tells you exactly how unhinged this volume gets. "Helmut Uncorked" channels free-form jazz energy, "Bob's Bottle Battle" turns sea shanty conventions inside out, and "Tia's Bottle Blues" aches with genuine melancholy.
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The Forgetful Forest material is eerie and gentle simultaneously. "Ram It Down" and its sequel "Ram It Down Harder" escalate with absurd confidence. "Beauty Is the Mind" closes everything beautifully. McConnell (alongside collaborators Clint Bajakian and Michael Land) treats every mental landscape like its own genre experiment.
If you thought game scores had to pick one mood and stick with it, this proves otherwise.