Chester Watson wants to understand his place in the cosmos. The producer and rapper’s new age boom-bap evokes sleepwalking with its narcoleptic rhythms and restless motion; even in the disorienting unreality of dreams, he is constantly plodding forward, searching for answers. His debut album staged his wandering style as a hazy spirit quest through Japanese folklore. On , the St. Louis rapper strips away the layers of metaphor and murk, aiming for lucid accounts of his shifting thoughts and emotions. is titled after an apocryphal Albert Einstein quote: “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” On the title track, Watson mines the saying for both its encouraging sentiment and its surreal imagery. “Just a fish up in the mountains outta my element, feeling at home/Thoughts blank when I'm settling deep into zones,” he raps through a shroud of jazzy bass strums and wispy melodies. His normally groggy voice sounds resonant and clear.