I started working on this before David Bowie passed, but I titled it in tribute because it was kind of inspired by the second side of Low, an album that helped kindle my interest in ambient electronic music.

Moon trees are trees grown from seeds that were taken into orbit around the moon during the Apollo 14 mission. I sometimes hit the random article button on Wikipedia until I get an evocative-sounding article title, then store it away for just…

"No Wake Entire Lake" was the cryptic content of a warning sign in front of a lake that someone once posted to Faceboook. I like that this ended up with kind of a "bouncy" feel, while still fitting in with the ambient theme .

Jack Shetland is my dog - that is, he is a Sheltie and at some point I decided part of his breed's name was also his last name for some reason. The cover image of him lounging on my porch didn't exactly inspire this track, but I felt the two went…

Second track completed for the album after "Buzz Break". Spot the anagram.

The track that inspired the feel of the whole rest of the album. Completed in early December: The subtitle and voice clip are now a bit out of season, but I couldn't bear to get rid of either.

Completed on the anniversary of the 2011 Boston bomb scare, so I had to title it with an Aqua Teen Hunger Force reference.

Started in early January, not completed until just now. I tried not to go too overboard with the vocal samples on this album.

I gave myself a rough guideline that most songs should be between 30 seconds and 2 minutes long - this was both because I didn't want the album to be much longer than 45 minutes and because I knew there were going to be certain days when I wouldn…

I originally wanted to rap over this beat, and had the idea to improvise nonsense syllables just to figure out what the flow might be like. Ultimately I decided to keep it as it was, as it sounded like a hip hop song from another planet. Also…