Labor Days (2001) ( )

Artist: Aesop Rock
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Product Summary
Label: Def Jux
UPC: 00600308884021
Release Date: 9/18/2001
Buy.com Sku: 60501996
Item#: MFWYXF
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Labor ~ Aesop Rock
2. Daylight ~ Aesop Rock
3. Save Yourself ~ Aesop Rock
4. Flashflood ~ Aesop Rock
5. No Regrets ~ Aesop Rock
6. One Brick - (featuring Illogic) ~ Aesop Rock
7. Tugboat Complex Pt. 3, The ~ Aesop Rock
8. Coma ~ Aesop Rock
9. Battery ~ Aesop Rock
10. Boombox ~ Aesop Rock
11. Bent Life - (featuring C-Rayz Walz) ~ Aesop Rock
12. Yes And The Y'All, The ~ Aesop Rock
13. 9-5ers Anthem ~ Aesop Rock
14. Shovel ~ Aesop Rock



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel includes: Aesop Rock, Illogic, C Rayz Walz.
Producers: Aesop Rock, Blockhead, Omega One.
Personnel: Aesop Rock (vocals); Omega One (scratches).
Recording information: The House.
Every once in a while an MC comes along who has the ability to reaffirm listeners' faith in hip-hop as a medium for intelligent, poetic, personal expression. Aesop Rock is one such MC, and LABOR DAYS is his defining statement. A flagship artist of the underground label Def Jux, Aesop Rock brings a style that is blisteringly fast, impossibly dense, and overflowing with metaphors, images, puns, references, and narratives. Rock's voice and attack--a rapid-fire, somewhat nasal monotone--borrows from Kool Keith and Eminem, yet his highly literate rhymes are uniquely his own.
Aesop Rock's music is the antithesis of flashy, R&B-based commercial hip-hop, and his politically conscious, culturally aware lyrics are galaxies removed from the thug/gangster themes of hardcore rap. Intriguing samples, featuring instruments like flute and sitar, flesh out the beats, but this is lyric-centered hip-hop, and Rock gives us plenty to absorb. Absorbing character-based narratives ("No Regrets") and slicing, alliterative tunes ("Daylight," with its infectious, memorable chorus) are testaments to the rapper's sophisticated lyrical superiority.

Musical Guests
Illogic
C-Rayz Walz

 
Artist Overview
New York MC and beat-maker Aesop Rock offers rapid-fire, often stream-of-consciousness lyrics, stuttering beats, and a frequently murky, atmospheric production aesthetic, making him one of the most distinctive hip-hop artists of his era. Though he began making music in the '90s, Brooklyn-based rapper became known in the early 2000s through his work for the feted underground hip-hop label Def Jux. His 2001 album LABOR DAYS was only the beginning of a series of releases that found Aesop Rock pushing the hip-hop envelope ever further.

Artist Influences
Beastie Boys | Boogie Down Productions | Common | EPMD | Gang Starr | George Clinton (Funk) | Kool Moe Dee | KRS-One | Public Enemy | Run-D.M.C. | Slick Rick | Ultramagnetic MC's | War | Wu-Tang Clan

Artist Contemporaries
Antipop Consortium | Atmosphere | Blueprint | Busdriver | Cannibal Ox | cLOUDDEAD | Company Flow | Diverse | Dizzee Rascal | Doseone | El-P | Fat Jon | Hangar 18 | Heiruspecs | K-the-I??? | Luckyiam | MF Doom | Mikah 9 | Mos Def | Mr. Lif | Pharoahe Monch | Prefuse 73 | Rjd2 | S.A. Smash | Subtle | Talib Kweli | The Perceptionists | The Streets


 
Compilation Appearances
Modern Mantra
End Of The Beginning
We Came From Beyond Volume 2 (Explicit Version)
Cut To The Chase
Surrounded By Silence
2k6 Tracks
Dick Swanson Theory Pt 1(Explicit Version)
Most Likely To Succeed
Bloody Radio(Explicit Version)
Stepping Stones The Self - Remixed Best: Lyri
Free Houdini
Love Potion 5(Explicit Version)
Definitive Jux Presents Iv
Fucked Up Friends

 
Associated Artists and Works
Company Flow
Iselfdivine

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 09/18/2001
Original Release Date : 2001
Catalog ID : 13
Label : Definitive Jux Records
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00600308884021

 
Professional Reviews
Spin (12/00, p.233)
- 7 out of 10 - "...Aesop's voice is a rich, flat bass cut with a thin growl....exploring variations within timbre to access a vast emotional range....he purrs contentedly, knowing that his vision will always poke through the haze."

Entertainment Weekly (9/28/01, p.74)
- "...[The] ambient grooves make the Wu-Tang Clan seem tired, while the hyper-enunciated rhymes make KRS ONE sound like a stutterer..." - Rating: A

Uncut (11/01, p.103)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...An esoteric and gripping ride..."

The Wire (1/02, p.40)
- Ranked #45 in Wire's "50 Records of the Year 2001".

  
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