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Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass

None Shall Pass is conceptual, I'm sure of it, though the concept I've yet to penetrate. And in the crafting of this alleged concept, Aesop Rock has twisted together a claustrophobic, dark collection of songs whose sounds waver between three points demarcated, somewhat roughly, by Labor Days, the nicer parts of Bazooka Tooth and Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives.

Cage, Rob Sonic, Breezly Brewin' and El-P each drop a verse, and all, as might be expected, do exceptionally fine work, though they never come close to shining, rhyme-wise, as brightly as Aesop does. John Darnielle, of The Mountain Goats, also guests on the final final track of the album — the one that appears after the silence that follows the actual final track — a nice folksy little song about pigs — pigs perhaps metaphorical, perhaps just literal.

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Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth

If I'd been given a chance to listen to this CD before I bought it— (the listening post at HMV was broken) —then chances are I wouldn't have.

I'm all for artistic progression, mainly because I realise that taking chances and occasionally fucking up—hello, Roots—is better than releasing the same brilliant album over and over and over again—I'm looking at you Jurassic 5.

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Mr. Lif - Emergency Rations

I bought this EP on the same day that I bought the Aesop Rock album. The person who sold me this CD didn't seem to want to be black.

There are seven songs in toto, excluding the obligatory hip hop intro, and the EP lasts about 28 minutes. Edan, Fakts One, Lif and El-P take care of the production duties, providing freewheeling—if in fact I can use terms like ‘freewheeling' —old school beats.

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Aesop Rock - Labor Days

I first heard Aesop Rock when he and M.F. Doom both rhymed over a Prefuse 73 track on the Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives album. I was intrigued by both rappers and was determined to track down an album by either.

Reviews were read and samples were heard and I decided that an Aesop Rock album could make me very happy.

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