Apollo Brown’s This Must Be the Place channels the joy and gratitude he’s found in his career, family, and friends. His first instrumental album since Thirty Eight (2014), it continues the atmospheric feel of Clouds (2011) but trades its melancholic boom-bap for warmth and nostalgia. Drawing from compositions by ten trusted sound designers, Brown crafted 21 tracks blending reflective moments with cosmic escapism—thumping grooves (“Butter”), jazz-tinged suites (“Nervous Goodbyes”), and spacey, synth-laced beats (“Escapism,” “Jupiter Gold”). This Must Be the Place is both a celebration of the present and a push toward the future.