The album itself featured a solid helping of heavy, sharp-edged rapping, and this instrumental version helps draw the ear to the buzzy, bigass boom bap that gave that rapping its body. With songs so thoroughly dominated by their hard-hitting vocals, this is more welcome than usual as a way to see what makes them tick.
Standing on its own, this plays a bit limp, not quite hooky enough for background music, not quite interesting enough to demand listening. The best tracks are the more melodic; Anywhere But Here plays like songs off a lost great Air album and Willie Blake Sherwood could just be a delightfully offkilter M83 outtake.
A curiosity, and more worthwhile than your average instrumentals album, but that's not saying much 3/5
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you probably have never heard of El-P before this album lol
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thanks for the comment though, I think?