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Float
Hip-Hop · 2000 · 20 tracks

Float

Aesop Rock

A dense, paranoid masterpiece of underground hip-hop. Dusty samples and hyper-literate rhymes create a claustrophobic, brilliant portrait of urban isolation.

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It's like a 70-minute panic attack in a library, but in a way that makes you feel smarter.

A restless, hyper-literate anxiety that finds beauty in the grit of urban isolation.

Float · vs · Aesop Rock
Anxious+0.9σ

Anxious saturates this record a touch more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 20 Tracks
01
Float
1:56
02
Commencement at the Obedience Academy
3:47
03
Big Bang
5:02
04
Garbage
4:04
05
I’ll Be OK
3:02
06
Breakfast With Blockhead
0:38
07
Basic Cable
4:13
08
Fascination
3:49
09
Oxygen
5:20
10
Skip Town
4:24
11
6B Panorama
2:05
12
Lunch With Blockhead
0:23
13
Spare a Match
4:56
14
Attention Span
3:54
15
How to Be a Carpenter
4:47
16
Prosperity
3:59
17
No Splash
4:04
18
Drawbridge
4:49
19
Dinner With Blockhead
0:49
20
The Mayor and the Crook
4:10
Moments Worth Waiting For
The relentless, breathless delivery on Big Bang where the metaphors pile up until the beat feels like it might collapse.
The haunting, skeletal piano loop on Oxygen that provides a sparse foundation for a meditation on survival.
The way the 'Blockhead' interludes provide brief, domestic palate cleansers between the dense lyrical onslaughts.
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