East Forest (feat. Keith Sweaty) collaborative album, "Cairn". The timing of Cairn coincided with a time of deep personal change for Oswalt as he left a long-term relationship of many years and found himself in unexpected emotional depths. You can hear in the lyrics of Cairn a highly personal and honest dive into the world of loss and individual choice. With the added acoustic instrumentation of trumpet by Brad Lee of The Album Leaf, and rhymes by Scarub of Living Legends, along with stings by the ‘Bizarre Strings’ trio (Band of Horses, My Morning Jacket, Joanna Newsom), Cairn transformed into a grooved out electro-acoustic experience that is as simultaneously booty shaking as it is genuinely introspective -- both a personal and societal call to arms exploring contradictory truths such as destiny, choice, and personal responsibility, all against the backdrop of a civilization undergoing fundamental transition and transformation. Music by Eas...