Year Of the Cartographer. Age of exploring. Map-maker, voyager, castaway, discoverer. Samuel Roberston made this album over the course of a few years, jotting lyrics and cataloging sounds like lines of latitude and longitude--scrawling demarcations as a means to chart the unknown territories of expedition. Songs of sojourn. Songs of shipwreck. Songs of new continents edged by the tide of the human sea.