Three full albums, eight tracks each, make up the Basin & Range Trilogy. Each album focuses on a certain element of the landscape, and each track is named after a specific location across the American West. The first album, The Lost Valleys, highlights the drastic elevation changes of this topography, such as Death Valley, which reaches down into the earth to 282 feet below sea level. (From certain points within Death Valley National Park, you can also see the nearly 15,000 foot peak of Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States.) The second album, The Forgotten Seas, takes its name from the ancient sea and lake beds that dot the landscape, remnants of a time long ago where huge bodies of water were a main feature of what is now mostly desert. The third album, The Sentinel Peaks, is inspired by the mountain tops that punctuate the land, many of them well over 10,000 feet tall.