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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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| Aesop Rock vomits a mass of molasses on the track with voice deep as Big Rock of Heltah Skeltah and a vocabulary of Webster. His new release, Float has been long awaited in the underground, with guest appearances by Slug, Vastaire, and Doseone. The first six tracks bombard you with intricate rhymes in a steady cadence which sweep you away like a syrup tsunami and wash you up gasping for breath on the shore of "Basic Cable:" "Television / All hail grand pixilated god of fantasy murderscape and perspective / Fuck a sore channel change digit / I sit with a nasty network intravenous plan / With a staple diet of my cable pirate / I wanna donate my brain to the monstrous Panasonic profit." Doing most of the beats and eerie production himself, Aesop weaves dirt and air to create himself. Laced with cutting observations and a direct perspective, his voice intimate with each beat, I was hypnotized throughout duration of this twenty track disk. Highly recommended to those tired of the current jigginess and low brow punch lines. - Trick |
2XLP/Out Of Print