Claude says:Eric Owyoung, the Southern California multi-instrumentalist behind Future of Forestry, opened his own studio and label in the early 2010s and began exploring stripped-back rearrangements of his catalog — this 2014 release pares earlier songs down to piano, strings, and the occasional vocal line. You picked it up the month it came out and leaned on the instrumental versions of "All I Want" and "Hallelujah," pulling it back for brief runs in 2016 and late 2017 before letting it drift.