Bleep

Madvillain’s Madvillainy LP surely has no small claim to the throne of modern hip-hop, and it’s in no small part thanks to Madlib’s miraculous production, which seethes and swells beneath MF Doom’s lyrical acrobatics. Back on vinyl for the first time since 2004, Madvillainy Instrumentals pulls the focus onto Madlib’s short-form genius, illuminating countless textural details we couldn’t hear beneath Doom’s bars.