gentle j is Jordan Thomas and “Smoking’ is disorienting, hot, and a little fuzzy at the edges. Echoey and lush, sounding like Cheap Trick, the Beach Boys, Flaming Lips and early Pink Floyd all melted up in one pot and stirred together, it’s just beautiful woozy pop weirdness. As for the video, if you are a film geek, you will be instantly transported back in time to epic all consuming 70’s road movies “Two- Lane Blacktop” and “Vanishing Point” which makes this all kinds of perfect.
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