Style: instrumental hip hop
Primary Emotions/Themes: A bit obscure take on the instrumental hip hop genre
Thoughts: Inhale and Exhale are two short EP's from Smoke Trees. One occupies each side of this record.
There are a lot of ways to do instrumental hip hop, some are easier to get into than others. This one is decidedly on the more difficult side. There are not easy loops to follow, the groove starts and stops suddenly, the samples are often obscured or don't really make sense. It's like it's daring you to take your time and sink your teeth in.
I enjoy taking on the challenge of Inhale/Exhale from time to time. Sometimes I need a palate cleanser of an album, one that forces me to focus in and forget whatever else I've listened to that day. This is that type of album.
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