In 2017 I put up four lines about this record, called it haunting and left it there. Accurate, and no use to anyone.

Danny Wolfers, who makes house and techno as Legowelt, wrote the score for Brad Abrahams' short documentary about the Skunk Ape, the bipedal something that supposedly moves through the Florida Everglades. The film runs a shade under ten minutes. The soundtrack is twelve tracks, and Wolfers notes on Bandcamp that most of them never reached the final cut, mostly because there was nowhere to put them, though the sounds would "linger beyond the images of the screen" regardless.

He was right, and the excess is the point. A score far larger than the film it serves is the right shape for a subject far larger than its evidence, which is what I was arguing yesterday about cryptids outliving their own science. Abrahams had a cryptozoologist, an indigenous conservationist and a man who photographs nude models in the swamp, and not ten minutes to hold them.

The cover argues the same way. A red pickup trailing exhaust takes a road through drowned cypress, drawn in crayon like a child's memory of the place instead of the place.

Titles carry it too. "Look For Sign", "Observe Me", "In Their Right Mind", "Forteana", "Swamp Cave" read as field notes from someone who has been out there a long time and found nothing, which is what Abrahams' witnesses mostly describe. The record's own Bandcamp page carries the tags ambient, americana and witch house at once. Witch house, on a Florida swamp documentary, in 2015. Three categories with no business cohering, and nobody involved seems troubled by it.

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