Aesop Rock, "None Shall Pass" VMP Exclusive Vinyl
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By 2007, Aesop Rock was a decade
into a career that had firmly
established him as one of rap's
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 Pass
argues for Aes as the chief
correspondent of an American
decline so smooth that it often felt
comfortable.
