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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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| Saturating practically every one of the seventy minutes of Float with emcee mastery, bombardment is the game here. With stark beats rarely more than pure backdrop, there's no escape. He gets off some great riffs, like his embodiment of an unhelpful, berating Bob Villa type in "How to Be a Carpenter" and his performance of both sides of a conversation about what to do with free time in "Oxygen." Both of these tracks, and much of the rest of the album seem to suggest that Aesop is obsessed with the theme of physical depletion, which, give that he's currently balancing a hip-hop career and a day job in Manhattan, lends the disc some weight. - CMJ |
2XLP/Out Of Print