"On follow-up Bandana, the bond deepens. Madlib's beats remain off-kilter, and Gibbs remains gangster, but there's a looser feel to this record, a spirit of intuition and intimacy. Their overall recording process didn't change much: Madlib sent beats and Gibbs rapped over them as is-samples, pauses, breaks, and all. This time, though, they made the effort to meet in the studio and review different mixes and edits, to calibrate. The result is a keener sense of each other's presence. Moving in lockstep, Gibbs and Madlib pull themselves deeper into one another's worlds, forging a new one in the process".