While few might have predicted it, Lost in the Cedar Wood is a collaboration that, when announced, made a surprising amount of sense. Johnny Flynn, Britain's folk-rock bard of song and stage, and Robert MacFarlane, the country's pre-eminent nature writer, came together in 2020 to write a pandemic album. Since releasing 2016's masterful Sillion, Flynn has been largely devoted to his burgeoning film career, taking on wildly divergent period roles ranging from David Bowie to Jane Austen's George Knightley. MacFarlane, for his part, is coming off the effusive praise of 2019's Underland, his epic exploration of the hidden world beneath our feet. Flynn's reputation as a creative polymath is well-established, though MacFarlane's musical pursuits have only been hinted at in his writing. Both are poignant wordsmiths with a deep love of Albion lore, legend, and natural history. Using the Epic of Gilgamesh as their starting point, the two friends spent the early lockdown days of 2020 enthusiastically trading ideas back and forth, eventually culminating in a group of songs that were recorded in the bucolic setting of a rural Hampshire cottage. Although credited to both artists, Lost in the Cedar Wood arrives as Flynn's fifth solo album with MacFarlane's contributions greatly augmenting, but preserving the overall continuity of the former's catalog.

1		Ten Degrees of Strange
2		The World to Come
3		Gods and Monsters
4		Bonedigger
5		I Can't Swim There
6		Nether
7		Flood in the Desert
8		Tree Rings
9		Enkidu Walked
10		Home and Dry
11		Ferryman