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Music > Aesop Rock - Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives
Artist: Aesop RockTitle: Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives
Year: 2005
Rating: ***
Notes: I was really disappointed in this EP from my favorite hip-hop artist. Aesop Rock seems to have finally submitted to the genre of hip-hop. While his first two albums could barely be called hip-hop because their style was so fresh and unique, this one wants to be called Underground hip-hop, which, while not mainstream, has a prescribed formula. That alone wouldn't necessarily be so terrible, but it feels like Aesop Rock just ran out of things to say. This disc sounds forced, whereas his previous songs were so interesting to listen to. The saving grace of this disc is that it includes an 88-page booklet with the lyrics to all of his albums, which reads like poetry.
Posted by Leon on September 20, 2005 03:48 PM