In October of last year, Boston producer Dr. Quandary gave us his ambitious album, Jukebox Buddha, an album that combined instrumental tracks with vocal tracks featuring a roster of some of his usual collaborators, giving the album a cohesive narrative along the way. Now he comes back with an epilogue to that album, Cemetery Hands EP.

If you spent the time with Jukebox Buddha (which you should), the formula for Cemetery Hands will immediately seem familiar. We get four instrumental tracks and two vocal tracks, with guest appearances from PremRock, Louis Mackey, and Zilla Rocca. The entire EP has the psychedelic, meditative quality to it, starting with the opening track, “Neuromancer,” which has this great laid-back groove to it built around this funky bassline, humming organs, wah wah guitar sounds, and lots of shakers, tambourines, and bells. This leads into the title track, which takes the style of the first track and amps up the energy with a sharper and more driving drumbeat, providing PremRock the perfect platform to wax philosophical on the mic. This leads into the posse cut of “Sleep,” which features all three emcees as they trade verses over this downtempo groove built around an acoustic guitar riff. From there, it’s all instrumental to close out the EP, which is great, because Quandary is really good with not only building up these soundscapes but building melody that drives the tracks and sticks in your head. I found myself returning to the instrumental tracks just as much if not even more than the vocal tracks, only because they are so good.

Cemetery Hands EP isn’t necessarily the big event that Jukebox Buddha was, but that’s not what epilogues are. This is an enjoyable compendium piece to that album, revisiting the style and sound one more time with some solid psychedelic grooves and some philosophical rhymes.