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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! / Awe-inspiring - Mixer / Makes most current hip-hop sound downright infantile – Resonance |
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| While most underground hip-hop these days sounds so tunelessly hardcore it belongs underground, Aesop Rock's Float is closer to the skeletal rawness of, say, Radiohead, trading in hip-hop's screwfaced boom for a pared-down frame to deliver overwritten, gnarled verses that sound positively feverish with their eerie double-tracking and scraped-out spinal column backing beats. Guest emcees Slug, Vastaire, and Doseone don't so much bring star power as a slightly different exit wound trajectory for the chrome-plated beats and cold sweat rhymes Aesop drops like he's reciting at a funky stream-of-consciousness open mic poetry reading. While musicality (at least standard hooks and choruses) isn't really found here, there is a raw nerve of hip-hop at its most exposed that makes Float as weirdly frantic as it is anthemic. And it kicks all kinds of mental ass, too. Awe-inspiring, and not an easy listen, but a strangely great and satisfying one nonetheless. - Mixer |
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