None Shall Pass (Colored 2xLP)

None Shall Pass (Colored 2xLP)PRESSED ON GOLD AND BLACK MARBLED VINYL By 2007, Aesop Rock was a decade into a career that had firmly established him as one of raps unreplicable auteurs, an artist who could be bitten only insofar as he could be understood. And still, when he sat down to write his fifth full length album, None Shall Pass, relics of his earliest work kept popping back up: the sorrow and salvation that can each be found in rigid structures, the horror of the ordinary,

PRESSED ON GOLD AND BLACK MARBLED VINYL

By 2007, Aesop Rock was a decade into a career that had firmly established him as one of rap’s unreplicable auteurs, an artist who could be bitten only insofar as he could be understood. And still, when he sat down to write his fifth full-length album, None Shall Pass, relics of his earliest work kept popping back up: the sorrow and salvation that can each be found in rigid structures, the horror of the ordinary, the tyranny of routine. Over a series of beats constructed in near-total by himself and Blockhead (El-P furnishes one track and co-produces another; Aes’ friend Rob Sonic handles the digital-gothic “Dark Heart News”), None Shall Pass argues for Aes as the chief correspondent of an American decline so smooth that it often felt comfortable.

Tracklist:

A1. Keep Off The Lawn 

A2. None Shall Pass

A3. Catacomb Kids

A4. Bring Back Pluto 

B1. Fumes 

B2. Getaway Car

B3. 39 Thieves 

B4. The Harbor Is Yours 

C1. Citronella 

C2. Gun For The Whole Family 

C3. Five Fingers

D1. No City 

D2. Dark Heart News 

D3. Coffee