[Puncture Repair]

Aesop is definitely an exhausting listen, I agree quick bursts work best.

Although I've never met or seen any Aesop Rock fans I imagine they're the kind that believe technical skill is the only way to grade how good music is. I actually really enjoyed Skelethon, I think Aesop comes across as genuinely intelligent, rather than just stringing long words together, and pulls off this kind of charming know-it-all persona very well.

I think his often really sucky hooks are testament to his incredibly methodical approach to music - he hears a beat and he just gets the itch to string impossibly enunciable sentences together, but you get the feeling he never really has any 'feeling' for it.

Anyway, new album, I'll probably give it a listen, those new songs came across a little bit meh to me, but then a lot of his stuff usually is until you commit to dissecting it.

[Necharsian]

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edit: just realized the video is some lo-fi puppet recreation of The Shining. Also so far this is far better than Skelethon

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[babyBlueSedan]

This video is legit. The album is great too.
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starting to think this might be his best. He's actually delving into some pretty in-depth personal examination/expression. Vocabulary is still massive, but I feel like behind it all he has more to actually say than ever before. Never thought Aes would make a record this outright personal (not to mention unexpectedly pretty damn humorous at times, often balancing the two modes pretty deftly). As with any AR record it's easy to miss whatever he's getting at just given how he goes about it, but this time around I definitely think it's worth giving it some attention. Dude's verbosity is his greatest strength and curse[/i]

[Skinny]

Much like Busdriver, it's largely been more of a case of admiration than adoration with Aes and me over the years (although I did thoroughly enjoy Skelethon). This is really good based on one listen. His Perfect Hair, perhaps? (i.e. the album where I finally, totally 'get' him.) Who knows. More listens will tell.
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[meccalecca]

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Whilst I've enjoyed a great deal of Aes' and especially Driver's catalogue, I think this and Perfect Hair both have it in common that they are the most outwardly emotionally expressive either of these artists have ever been, using their inhuman technical skills to make them appear more human