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MH-202 Aesop Rock - Float  "So I heard you all want to float" bellows Aesop Rock, causing the flood gates to burst. Aesop Rock's first full-length effort, Float, contains twenty tracks of Avenue A hip-hop deluge and exemplifies the classic explosiveness of the sub-terra MC. It is the sound of a new New York underground speaking in full. With pinpoint production handled by Aesop and his main man, Blockhead, Float roars and rushes to the forefront. The release features guest appearances by Vastaire of Cannibal Ox, Slug of Atmosphere, and Doseone of Anticon. Dense in meaning and gorgeous in sound, Aesop holds nothing back, creating a work destined to become a landmark. Float is one of the year's most anticipated underground hip-hop releases and one that delivers on each and every line. |
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| Hip-Hop As Gritty And Complex As The Alphabet City Streets He Hails From - CMJ / Will Hypnotize You - XLR8R / Damn-Near-Genius Wordplay - AP / An MC Who Is So Uniquely Dope, He Absolutely Demands Attention - Exclaim! / Makes Most Current Hip-Hop Sound Downright Infantile - Resonance / Awe-Inspiring - Mixer |
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| Biggie Smalls may have created the definitive paradigm for the modern hip-hop narrative with his somber visions of a New York cityscape pockmarked with hustlers and thugs, but on Float, Aesop Rock weighs in with a portrait of urban sprawl every bit as stark and indelible. Aesop Rock's sterling debut - issued on underground label Mush - traffics heavily in themes of disconnection and claustrophobia, offering a blistering wake-up call to the legions of New Yorkers blind to the decadence that surrounds them. And his skills as an emcee are undeniable: the record flows seamlessly from end-to-end like a tone poem, and Aesop Rock never shies away from challenges in his nuanced rhymes, layering themes upon one another and transforming simple, recurring images into complex metaphors. - Gallery of Sound |
2XLP/Out Of Print