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Track Listing
1. Keep Off the Lawn
2. None Shall Pass
3. Catacomb Kids
4. Bring Back Pluto
5. Fumes
6. Getaway Car - (with Cage/Breezly Brewin)
7. 39 Thieves
8. Harbor Is Yours, The
9. Citronella
10. Gun For the Whole Family - (with El-P)
11. Five Fingers
12. No City
13. Dark Heart News - (with Rob Sonic)
14. Coffee - (with John Darnielle)
Album Notes
Personnel: Hollis, Camu Tao (vocals); Allyson Baker (guitar); Derek Layes, Carson Binks (bass guitar); DJ Big Wiz (scratches).
Additional personnel: El-P, Rob Sonic (vocals); Breezly Brewin, John Darnielle, Cage.
San Francisco MC Aesop Rock has long been the acknowledged king of hipster-hop, bringing to the game a cerebral, often ironic lyrical sensibility and a taste for adventurous production. Long Island-born AR (born Ian Bavitz) has a lifetime of personal issues and sociopolitical preoccupations banging around in his brain, and he continues to air them on NONE SHALL PASS, his fifth full-length release. Aesop's knack for getting polysyllabic while maintaining an organic flow is in full effect here: how many other rappers can make "Helvetica" and "euthanasia" fall trippingly off the tongue? Backing it all up with tracks that mix '70s funk, IDM-style electronica, left-field psychedelia, and classic West Coast beats, Aesop Rock (with guest shots from pals El-P and the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle) proves that there are still fresh approaches available to rappers with a searching spirit.
Industry Reviews
[H]is fourth album is as dense as ever....His paragraphs are still wound tight with near metaphors and dissociative imagery...
[With] free associative existential riffs, surreal suburban imagery and winding accounts of decay....NONE SHALL PASS might be his best work since LABOR DAYS.
3 stars out of 5 -- On NONE SHALL PASS, the entry point is classic hip-hop....It peaks on 'Coffee,' a wonderfully weird, ska-tinged duet...
3 stars out of 5 -- Long Island-born Ian Bavitz here delivers some typically extravagant wordplay. There's smart production, too...
His dazzling verbal pointillism resolves into clever rants and full-blown stories. -- Grade: A-
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [A] challenging, rewarding head trip. 'Fumes' and '39 Thieves' are classic Def Jux...
3 stars out of 5 -- Indie rap's wordiest wordsmith unleashes another dose of dense, hyper-enunciated rhymes filled with poetic imagery.
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