Thoughts on Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid album?

Started by Big Dangerous, Jan 8, 2017, in Music Add to Reading List

  1. Big Dangerous
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    Jan 8, 2017
    So someway I let this project escape me the past year, then I saw Myke Ctown, Big Quint, Ken, and needledrop all put it on their best of 2016 album lists and stated it was Aes' most accessible project so i had to listen
    I have enjoyed Aesop's past albums even though I really could only grasp what he was truly saying his is simpler popular tracks like Daylight and None Shall Pass

    But wow man, this record has blown me away so far. I can't remember the last time I peeped a new album and actively wished I was listening to it when I was doing something else. This record has so much content and connections between songs it just keeps dragging me back wanting more. Basically the entire album is about Aesop personally and his depression over the past 8 years since his friend died.

    It's a lot easier to understand than his older stuff, while still being complicated enough to require reading the lyrics and truly thinking about the stuff he's saying. Also the production is breathtaking and Aesop's flow is better than its ever been.

    This also really got me wanting to go back and truly comb through his older stuff until I understand it as much as I do this project

    Have you guys given this thing a listen? What do you think about it?

    Fav tracks
    Blood Sandwich (prob my new fav Aes song)
    Get out the car
    Rings
    Molecules
     
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  2. Big Dangerous
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    I know I'm probably gonna get dumb troll responses, just hope real responses are enough to balance it out
     
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    @kanyesucksdealwithit Your day has finally come
     
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  4. Radeem
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    Jan 8, 2017
    I absolutely agree with the op.

    I know that Skelethon is objectively a better album but the impossible kid is just easier to digest.
     
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    creative as s---. almost uncomfortably personal. wordplay is something else. production is otherworldly. all this from a man whos nearly 2 decades in to his career. agreed wouldn't put it on same pedestal as Skelethon but yea regardless album is p fkn great.
     
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    I need to dive into that record
     
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    This was my AOTY. Hands down. Aesop slowed down his rhymes on this project and it leads more to more accessible, enjoyable track. Went back and listened to Skelethon and it's really a much more dense, abstract album.
     
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  8. Bourbon Ben
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    love this record

    shrunk is amazing
     
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    trash
     
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    gucci didnt listen to it just a reminder
     
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    Gucci a prophet tho
     
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    Favourite song TUFF
    Worst s--- project ruining kunt song is Kirby
    Yung Leans Kirby>>>>>
     
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  13. Zanni
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    Great album but nothing will beat Labor Days if we being honest
     
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    i don't wanna like it but i like it
     
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  15. Big Dangerous
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    Don't understand why you wouldn't want to like it :kanye3:
     
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    Boo Sr my son drink breast milk outta lean cups

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    idk it's fun to hate on aesop rock
     
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  17. Antman
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    Jan 8, 2017
    Read op so just hit play on Apple Music. Will post my thoughts if I remember and care enough
     
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  18. Pixel
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    Liked the simplicity of it for an aesop album, his stupidly cryptic way of writing has always been a negative for me, but i still dont find myself liking it as much as skelethon or labor days for some reason idk
     
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    Wtf thought this was asap rocky f--- u troll reported
     
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    vintage meme
     
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