Aesop Rock - I Heard It's a Mess There Too - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

When Aesop Rock debuted in the late 90s with Music For Earthworms and Appleseed, Blockhead was also a part of the process, not only as a producer, but also helping coordinate sales of the CDRs to hungry Hip Hop fans. Blockhead and Aesop continued to collaborate, creating an impressive list of songs along the way, including two of Aesop's most popular songs to date; InchDaylightInch and InchNone Shall PassInch. In recent years, Blockhead has contributed production, as well as remixes, to many of Aesop's solo releases and group projects, and Aesop has made a handful of guest features on Blockhead's solo projects, but in all that time, Aesop and Block have never done a full album together, until now!Garbology came together over the course of the pandemic, as well as in the midst of Aesop processing the loss of a close friend in January of 2020, resulting in a period of time of feeling uncreative. Looking back on that time that feels both like yesterday and forever-ago, Aesop recalls, InchThe world got real weird during those months. I knew at some point I had to get back to making something. Make a beat. Draw a picture. Write. Just go. But the idea of making a beat felt like math homework, and drawing is just so hard. Writing is hard too, but at some point I had to pick one.Inch With writing as the chosen path, Aesop hit up Blockhead to send over some beats. At the beginning there wasn't a plan for an album, or any particular plan beyond creating some songs. However, it wasn't long before one song became a few, and then a handful, until finally an album was born.Garbology encapsulates the soundtrack of current times, capturing a snapshot of Aes and Block expressing a means of entertaining themselves in the midst of less social interactions than usual, Inchanchored on a goulash of cabin fever, fear, anger and boredomInch, as Aesop describes it.As for the album title, Aeso

While the sounds are familiar, we see Aesop venturing in some exciting new directions with appearances from Kimya Dawson, Allyson Baker, Hanni El Khatib, Rob Sonic, and DJ Big Wiz. Album Tracks 1. Leisureforce 2. ZZZ Top 3. Cycles to Gehenna 4. Zero Dark Thirty 5. Fryerstarter 6. Ruby 81 7. Crows 1 8. Crows 2 9. Racing Stripes 10. 1,000 O Clock 11. Homemade Mummy 12. Grace 13. Saturn Missiles 14. Tetra 15. Gopher Guts

Bazooka Tooth is the fourth full-length album by American hip hop artist Aesop Rock, released on September 23, 2003. For the first time, the majority of production is handled by Aesop Rock himself, although long-term collaborator Blockhead contributes three tracks and one is provided by El-P. Significant vocal guest appearances are made by El-P and fellow Def Jux labelmates Party Fun Action Committee and Mr. Lif as well as by 1990s Bronx hip-hop duo Camp Lo. There are also brief vocal cameos (credited on the sleeve as InchAdditional Trash Talking and MalarchyInch [sic]) by Cannibal Ox, S.A. Smash, and Murs. Scratching is handled by DJ Cip One of Cannibal Ox and DJ Pawl of Hangar 18. Much of the instrumentals for the introduction track, InchBazooka Tooth, Inch were done by Jer of Party Fun Action Committee using standard pots and pans. The cover is by Israeli artist Tomer Hanuka. Album Tracks 1. Bazooka Tooth 2. N.Y. Electric / Hunter Interlude 3. Easy 4. No Jumper Cables 5. Limelighters / Flunkadelic Interlude 6. Super Fluke 7. Cook It Up 8. Freeze / Honeycomb Interlude 9. We're Famous 10. Babies with Guns 11. The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History 12. Frijoles 13. 11 35 / Ketamine U.S.A. Interlude 14. Kill the Messenger 15. Mars Attacks