Botany

With slightly more than a handful of releases to his credit, Texas native Spencer Stephenson has covered a vast, impressive array of musical ground with his work as Botany. Integrating live instrumentation and dusty samples, his compositional techniques are informed by hip-hop and beat-heavy electronic music, but they reference spiritual jazz, psychedelic folk, ambient, and numerous other styles. His work varies from the more rhythmic, pulsating tracks of 2013's Lava Diviner (Truestory) to the free-flowing washes of sound heard on 2016's Deepak Verbera, but it's always conscio...