Where do you go to when your last album featured a barbershop quartet ushering in a twisted slab of metallic Atomic Age noise like an outtake from an X‑rated piece of Fallout DLC? Easy, you recruit smooth jazz legend Kenny G to add saxophone licks to a song called Merkurius Gilded that sounds like a grandiose sci-fi rock opera bleeding into your ears through a rift to another dimension. Imperial Triumphant have made a career of confounding conventions and unleashing the unusual, and Spirit of Ecstasy continues that odyssey. Long-term fans might not have been quite so surprised by the Kenny G connection, considering his son Max Gorelick has contributed guitars to the band (and reappears here alongside his dad), but it’s still an unusual pairing. ...