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, 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 Passargues 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