Name: Float
Brand: AESOP ROCK, INC.
SKU: 26032832
Price: 17.19 USD
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Float

Rating

Album: Float
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Float	More Info...	0:02
2)	Commencement at the Obedience Academy	More Info...	0:03
3)	Big Bang	More Info...	0:05
4)	Garbage	More Info...	0:04
5)	I'll Be OK (Feat. Slug)	More Info...	0:03
6)	Breakfast With Blockhead	More Info...
7)	Basic Cable	More Info...	0:04
8)	Fascination	More Info...	0:03
9)	Oxygen	More Info...	0:05
10)	Skip Town	More Info...	0:04
11)	6B Panorama	More Info...	0:02
12)	Lunch With Blockhead	More Info...
13)	Spare a Match	More Info...	0:05
14)	Attention Span (Feat. Vast Aire)	More Info...	0:04
15)	How to Be a Carpenter	More Info...	0:04
16)	Prosperity	More Info...	0:04
17)	No Splash	More Info...	0:04
18)	Drawbridge (Feat. Doseone)	More Info...	0:04
19)	Dinner With Blockhead	More Info...
20)	The Mayor and the Crook	More Info...	0:04

Album: Float
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Float	More Info...	0:02
2)	Commencement at the Obedience Academy	More Info...	0:03
3)	Big Bang	More Info...	0:05
4)	Garbage	More Info...	0:04
5)	I'll Be OK (Feat. Slug)	More Info...	0:03
6)	Breakfast With Blockhead	More Info...
7)	Basic Cable	More Info...	0:04
8)	Fascination	More Info...	0:03
9)	Oxygen	More Info...	0:05
10)	Skip Town	More Info...	0:04
11)	6B Panorama	More Info...	0:02
12)	Lunch With Blockhead	More Info...
13)	Spare a Match	More Info...	0:05
14)	Attention Span (Feat. Vast Aire)	More Info...	0:04
15)	How to Be a Carpenter	More Info...	0:04
16)	Prosperity	More Info...	0:04
17)	No Splash	More Info...	0:04
18)	Drawbridge (Feat. Doseone)	More Info...	0:04
19)	Dinner With Blockhead	More Info...
20)	The Mayor and the Crook	More Info...	0:04

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Aesop Rock, Vastaire, Slug, Doseone.
Personnel: Aesop Rock (vocals).
Words to describe this work would be: surprising, analytical, darkness, mystery, lyricism, and jealous. Jealous because it's likely that every person who has ever tried to rap would wish he could rhyme like this guy, and every poet would wish to dream with such imagery. If you're into bootyshakin' and dancing, and that's the reason you listen to hip-hop, do not buy this album. But if you like hip-hop for rhymes that make you think, this guy just can't be slept on. For example, "6B Panorama" discusses the view from his NYC apartment and starts like this: "I was sitting on my fire escape and I saaaaaaw...Sturdy bridges, decorated with dirty pigeons, a vagabond beggin' for three pennies and a princess, a junky tourniquet surgeon urgin' the needle in, a batty senior citizen flashin' that awful teethless grin." Artists such as Aesop Rock paint intricate abstract pictures with their music, and it's simply too much information to handle in a single sitting. This album is so complex that it may never be fully comprehended by the listener, but you may find yourself walking along listening one day and finally figure out one of the metaphors -- a great feeling. This is one of a few albums definitely worth any import pricing. One more quote: "(I see) a challenge, a chance to add real colors to my favorite palette, raise my mighty mallet towards the gods and swing my talents!" ~ Brad Mills