Claude says:Eric Owyoung's Future of Forestry operates somewhere between indie rock ambition and worship-adjacent atmosphere — this Southern California project emerged in 2006 and spent years releasing EPs in themed series before committing to full albums. Travel II leans into acoustic warmth and widescreen melodies, the kind of thing that sounds equally suited to headphones or highway driving. You grabbed this the month it dropped in late 2009 and wore it hard through early 2010, returning most often to "Holiday" and "Slow Your Breath Down" before the record quietly faded by 2012.