Damn how is nobody mentioning that this song is about Kurt Hayashi and his entire thoughts of losing yet another close loved friend. So many introspective lines in this track but nobody mentioning Hayashi
It is a mosaic using past, present, and future pulverized and mixed with friendships and impending loneliness as the contextual catalyst, adding several deep variables
@@jonathansoko1085 I would say the exact opposite. This album is pretty weird, but that's why we all love it. I wish other artists similarly started doing weird stuff too
@@grahamentwistle2081 that’s why I love Aesop’s music so much. It’s weird, but I’m weird and it makes me feel better. I wish more artists were like him and just made music without caring if other people like it. He just speaks his mind and brings his own vision to life through his songs.
@@grahamentwistle2081 weird is Aesop’s middle name. That’s why we love his music so much. All his albums r different and sound “weird” at first. But his abstract art is what attracts us
These two have went full circle together with another timeless underground classic. This album is fucking phenomenal! Triple A production, Aes at his most clever and whimsical, as well as one of his more accessible albums lyrically. It feels like Aesop Rock has put more care in crafting the lyrics off this album then his last couple projects. I feel like this album is a true, coming of age project for both artists. 9.5 out of 10 and my favorite album of 2021.
@@darth_hylian I was hooked on raising the Chao so I'd grind for rings & animals / certain color glowstick things. You could raise them very specifically and get crazy results I really liked how most of the levels had a "hidden Chao" mission. Looking for something that tiny on a high speed map was kinda fun. Really hard lol
This perfectly captures the concept of Hauntological music. The muted and distorted melody of one of those indistinct jingles that have a familiarity you can't quite place, the kind that was specifically meant to be pleasant and catchy, but forgettable background noise while you shopped or hung out. Shit sounds like it was ripped straight out of an early 90s shopping mall..
This is the best song I've heard in years! One of Aesop's best. I almost feel guilty for listening to this 1000s of times, and not checking the full album.
When he says earth wind water fire ether I think he's referring to the writings of Musashi Miyamoto. The Book of Five Rings. He was arguably the greatest swordsman to ever live and his philosophy on life was pretty profound for his time and setting.
The one song I want to have be played at my funeral, feels like an end to a life who's eyes has seen so much, but understands barely the scratch of what nail was used to dig into the dirt.
Ngl I still hold Labor Days as my GOAT bc of its meaning and message within the trilogy (which in itself is fucking insane to this day and I credit Float for building it up as well), but this really holds up there with those OG mostly produced Blockhead albums, no doubt. Honestly this album seems like the epilogue to that trilogy 👍🏽
I'm really high on the fact that he isn't just spitting insane flows and bars and whatevers, he's actually spitting real talk all day Aes, you too much sometimes
Blockhead taking that Old school European Giallo Sound and Aes rock filling it out w/ lyrics that turn sounds into cascades of visuals to follow the film that plays out in our brains . God Damn This is by far my favorite off the album and other artists need to take notes because the test is coming in 2022
Aes, from the bottom of my heart this is amazing. I've been listening to you since labor days and there hasn't been an album that I didn't like, but I simply cannot stop listening to this album. Great job man, hope your doing well. You and Blockhead. Love yall
Remember having Blockhead sign a copy of Music by Cavelight for me about 15 years ago. This might be my favorite track yall have done together. Thanks for the decades of entertainment.
Despite how fucked up the world is right now, musically the start of this decade is looking very promising with new atmosphere and Aesop albums last year and this year.
Yeah the existential dread is bottomless. This song captures that more than almost anything I can think of. But I guess I'm drawn to words set to music moreso than paintings or novels, or film. There are no great answers other than do your best and try to manifest love and positivity and be honorable, make good memories, keep pushing for more while the mad world crumbles around you. I guess that's probably how it has usually felt for many people throughout most of history. Maybe focusing on that for too long is self-destructive. But at least being able to acknowledge it is essential.
how does he say lines like: "best friends in death beds, red cents and headwinds vs. one man who's ten men" without going extreme wild style over the top? I guess that's what rappers have always done, deliver the wildest poetry with a cold precision. But man there is so much emotion in this quasi-couplet, how do you deliver that without exploding? It's similar to a lot of metal drummers now who play the most brutal stuff while sitting almost motionless with a blank expression. I guess you take the person out of the experience in the moment in order to deliver the coldest material with the utmost precision sometimes.
I was staring off into the water Looking for some undiscovered colors Like a blue that really wasn't, but it wasn't any others The synesthetic cousin to the hum of his discomfort I been a punching bag for some truly deluded garbage Now his handshake is a unicorn, his hug a moving target Dark days either sparing change for the square pegs Or in his fav chair sipping on bear mace Tripping through his daymare, marathoning monster flicks Zombie in the stale air, logging his Hayashi pics I been trying to teach your kid to ollie She got the basic motion and glow when she show her mommy I get they want the hows and whens of water cooler powder kegs That shit that get your saintly favorites ousted from the power grid I know I know some shit about some shit I guess that gotcha gossip simply isn't part of how I live Skin cold to the touch Eyes open, no pulse Diagnosis in flux Traffic in a mad world Mad world, whereupon Often times the body spits the spirit out and carries on To engineer some semblance of a normal life, yours and mine Then of course it's normalcy where paranormal's normalized Normal is a phantom force that levitates the forks and knives Or otherworldly parasites that quarrel over portion size Hit the floor and you could be the next unfriendly energy to organize Ordering corpses into the chorus line Best friends and death beds Red cents, and headwinds vs one man who's ten men I bubble to the surface legendarily imperfect Purging Slurpee from a head that turns incessantly in circles, it's concerning My psychic likes to focus on a orb And tell me how she sees me coming home to goldfish on the floor, in perpetuity I been sleeping in my armchair, taking weird walks, and speaking to folk who aren't there Skin cold to the touch Eyes open, no pulse Diagnosis in flux The same alleys we used to imagine Babylon Feel like abandoned malls overgrown with Spanish moss Commotion froze in time with no sign of your lamb of god It's a land of the lost, scrambling for canned applause Damnit, rip the bandage off, rant or panic if you must Any way you manage it, the plan was always pick the cuffs, eventually Fixtures who were questionably prisoners, and ventured out Now we're never anything but visitors Spent the winter sitting pretty on a sleigh to hell OK to look away if you need to forsake and save yourself It's underneath what's underneath the dungeon That layer of dysfunction, that ain't for the weak of stomach I freak an Archeology that reek of repercussion If you need to pick some pieces up come dig a hole to jump in Light sleeper, I'm a fighter, I'm a feeder Earth, wind, fire, water, aether Skin cold to the touch Eyes open, no pulse Diagnosis in flux
Ty for droppin lyrical substance an not bein apart of the sheeple ,u truly r a very amazin rapper who doesnt get enough credit ,but I think ur the type that dont car about any type of cred besides some skate or gta cred 🤣
Based on some lyrics in this song, I suspect Aes has been having experiences similar in nature to those that Chris Bledsoe describes in interviews about his experiences with UFO's, Orbs, and other paranormal Phenomena. ✌️♥️🛸🔥
This album is clean, like the production on it is top notch, tho it may embody the rhetoric of a hipster fuc, I would be lying if I said I didnt miss the grime of that lofi feel him and blockheads earlier work had to it; tho on the flip side the track comes after decades of honing thier individual craft and nailing out all the imperfections; and there's also a chance modern audiences wouldn't appreciate that sound as much as they did in the early 2000's
Aes just ..... how he do so much?!?!? I ain't even mad, im impressed,, shit it's baffling....
i have a feeling its just the way his brain works....bet there is a shit ton more :) lmao
A fellow Dork, I see!
Yoooo
Right I haven't even fully processed swfg yet
Nicely done.
Damn how is nobody mentioning that this song is about Kurt Hayashi and his entire thoughts of losing yet another close loved friend. So many introspective lines in this track but nobody mentioning Hayashi
Because that's not the only thing this song is about, only a piece of it.
Also, RIP Hyashi.
It is a mosaic using past, present, and future pulverized and mixed with friendships and impending loneliness as the contextual catalyst, adding several deep variables
Tripping through his daymare
Marathoning monster flicks
Zombie in the stale air
Logging his Hayashi pics
You know the music is good when you get chills. Thank you Aesop for consistently dropping hits for the underground
Aesop knows the kind of rap his fans want to hear. I wish others took note and stopped doing weird shit instead.
@@jonathansoko1085 exactly
@@jonathansoko1085 I would say the exact opposite. This album is pretty weird, but that's why we all love it. I wish other artists similarly started doing weird stuff too
@@grahamentwistle2081 that’s why I love Aesop’s music so much. It’s weird, but I’m weird and it makes me feel better. I wish more artists were like him and just made music without caring if other people like it. He just speaks his mind and brings his own vision to life through his songs.
@@grahamentwistle2081 weird is Aesop’s middle name. That’s why we love his music so much. All his albums r different and sound “weird” at first. But his abstract art is what attracts us
"I've been sleeping in my armchair...
taking weird walks, and speaking to folks who aren't there."
That kinda sums it up
These two have went full circle together with another timeless underground classic. This album is fucking phenomenal! Triple A production, Aes at his most clever and whimsical, as well as one of his more accessible albums lyrically. It feels like Aesop Rock has put more care in crafting the lyrics off this album then his last couple projects. I feel like this album is a true, coming of age project for both artists. 9.5 out of 10 and my favorite album of 2021.
No doubt
Id say he put a lot of care in the lyrics of impossible kid. That album is a masterpiece
@@mamba4817 every album I'm pretty sure we've hit peak Aesop Rock and now I'm fairly certain that's just not how it works.
“the plan was always to pick the cuffs”
this man is a legend
too real
Hell of a double entendre too
Greatest rapper ever.
HIm and Doseone
And judging from SWFG one of the best producers around too.
@@gyozakeynsianism I tried DmT for the first time listening to that album and it was an experience
@@nothing2see315 Did the coffins jump? Did you wash down a snake on a stick with a Nescafe?
@@gyozakeynsianism The beats came alive and I don’t remember hearing vocals
I hate it when people leave me speechless so I listen to Aesop as a meditation in discomfort
this sounds like a sonic 2 underwater level secret track
I loved that part of the levels
That's a good thing. Sonic has great music
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle still stands as the best sonic game ever
@@Phearsum Definitely. I was obsessed with Shadow
@@darth_hylian I was hooked on raising the Chao so I'd grind for rings & animals / certain color glowstick things. You could raise them very specifically and get crazy results
I really liked how most of the levels had a "hidden Chao" mission. Looking for something that tiny on a high speed map was kinda fun. Really hard lol
Blockhead is really killing it here with Aesop!!! Its straight fire!!!
👍
The shit about teaching hayashi’s kid to Ollie gets me every time. Heavy track
RIP
This perfectly captures the concept of Hauntological music.
The muted and distorted melody of one of those indistinct jingles that have a familiarity you can't quite place, the kind that was specifically meant to be pleasant and catchy, but forgettable background noise while you shopped or hung out. Shit sounds like it was ripped straight out of an early 90s shopping mall..
This is the best song I've heard in years! One of Aesop's best.
I almost feel guilty for listening to this 1000s of times, and not checking the full album.
Bro, Oh Fudge, Jazzhands, and Difficult are absolute bangers too.
Guilty af bro
Did you check out Garbology yet? Whole album is incredible.
The sea
one of the hardest beats these ears have heard, spoken over by legend.
When he says earth wind water fire ether I think he's referring to the writings of Musashi Miyamoto. The Book of Five Rings. He was arguably the greatest swordsman to ever live and his philosophy on life was pretty profound for his time and setting.
That's just also the 5 basic elements of the universe from classical european alchemy.
you're confusing ether with void i think
You could have told me this was ripped right off from "Float" and I wouldn't blink once. Love this sound
The legend is still being written
The one song I want to have be played at my funeral, feels like an end to a life who's eyes has seen so much, but understands barely the scratch of what nail was used to dig into the dirt.
This is better than we could have hoped for
Um this ^^
The beat, the layer of harmonies and the lyrics really make you FEEL what HE IS FEELING.
Greatest album I've ever heard, every song hits heavy both lyrically and literally. No one but aes rock and blockhead could've delivered as much
Sorry but I don't get the lyrics...
Then listen to something else lmao
@@deetea7016 goes straight over most heads.
Ngl I still hold Labor Days as my GOAT bc of its meaning and message within the trilogy (which in itself is fucking insane to this day and I credit Float for building it up as well), but this really holds up there with those OG mostly produced Blockhead albums, no doubt. Honestly this album seems like the epilogue to that trilogy 👍🏽
This man steady supplies the most wonderful insights and ideas.
I'm really high on the fact that he isn't just spitting insane flows and bars and whatevers, he's actually spitting real talk all day
Aes, you too much sometimes
"I can tell you that I only write shit down when I believe it. So, take this how you want, but know I mean it."
Mesmerizing. First listen to the whole album,
Good luck memorizing.
this is the greatest song these two have ever created.
@djbucksd Agreed this is a good start for the new decade
@djbucksd listen to flamingo pink. its insane
Aes and Blockhead can do no wrong
this is still some of the most ridiculously intricate writing I've ever come across. Aes is an alien, all there is to it
Aes & Blockhead go back to college days, never been a better duo.
12 years since i found aes..
12 years of quality and Lyrics
Thanks for Sharing your univerese!
Garbology is supremely fucking dope, but this track in particular... my god. Been stuck in my head for days. Sonic gold.
The sea is pretty good also and makes for a nice 1/2 punch finale
Blockhead taking that Old school European Giallo Sound and Aes rock filling it out w/ lyrics that turn sounds into cascades of visuals to follow the film that plays out in our brains . God Damn This is by far my favorite off the album and other artists need to take notes because the test is coming in 2022
One of the best damn songs I think I’ve ever heard. Simplest way I can put it.
"I've been sleeping in my armchair, taking weird walks and sticking it to folks who aren't there." - This one hit hard. Thanks Aes.
Speaking to folk who aren't there*
@@619Vital Nah it's, "Sticking it to folks who aren't there."
@@84Ccate .................no. Dude..... listen to it in slow mo. Look at the lyrics.. they're in the description...... it's not.
@@619Vital Mmmm, I'm right. But look, it's ok to be wrong bro. Everybody is wrong sometimes, now is just one of your times...
Listened to this song on repeat for an hour then bought the album. IMO this is Aesop's best album. Blockhead's production is perfect too.
Aes, from the bottom of my heart this is amazing. I've been listening to you since labor days and there hasn't been an album that I didn't like, but I simply cannot stop listening to this album.
Great job man, hope your doing well.
You and Blockhead. Love yall
This is the best song on the album and that last line is pure gold.
2:31 ORB PONDERING
"Often times the body spits the spirit out and carries on". Sad how true this is nowadays
Our 'leaders' came to mind when I heard this.
Remember having Blockhead sign a copy of Music by Cavelight for me about 15 years ago. This might be my favorite track yall have done together. Thanks for the decades of entertainment.
Just happy to be here 😁🤘
Just being here now is enough for me
Happy to be on the food chain at all!
2:02 "Normal is a phantom force that levitates the forks and knives."
Aes rolling over the hill with Blockhead like Gandalf and the Rohirrim when the day seems its darkest.
Blockhead really outdid himself.
Why does this album have to end?
Taking weird walks and speaking to folk who aren't, there. .
I'm pretty sure this one's my fav.
Thanks guys. It's been a long week
"Better Ways" by Trevor Bastow
The instrumental on this one is pretty amazing
"often times the body spits the spirit out and carries on"
Incredible artistry.
Thanks for the love! The whole album is dope! Just in time to for me to hibernate 💀🤟🏽💚
New TWRP and Aes on the same day?! Fuuuuuuuuck yes.
Despite how fucked up the world is right now, musically the start of this decade is looking very promising with new atmosphere and Aesop albums last year and this year.
One of the greatest beats ever created
My favorite 1 off this album so far.
I wish there was a vid for this track.
Any way you manage it the plan was always pick the cuffs
What a perfect ending for the album. Whew. Served straight up on a plate.
This guy is the greatest philosophical poet ever
He's really perfected his craft
They both have.
1 of my fav beats ever
Aesop makes me want to make shit and that's a higher compliment than I probably usually give.
Wish I could give this man a hug. So fucking beautiful I could weep. Banger🔥
good luck hitting that moving target
Love the Beats as always, whole family jamming to them!
Masterpiece.
Cant stop. Wont stop.
Yeah the existential dread is bottomless. This song captures that more than almost anything I can think of. But I guess I'm drawn to words set to music moreso than paintings or novels, or film. There are no great answers other than do your best and try to manifest love and positivity and be honorable, make good memories, keep pushing for more while the mad world crumbles around you. I guess that's probably how it has usually felt for many people throughout most of history. Maybe focusing on that for too long is self-destructive. But at least being able to acknowledge it is essential.
how does he say lines like: "best friends in death beds, red cents and headwinds vs. one man who's ten men" without going extreme wild style over the top? I guess that's what rappers have always done, deliver the wildest poetry with a cold precision. But man there is so much emotion in this quasi-couplet, how do you deliver that without exploding? It's similar to a lot of metal drummers now who play the most brutal stuff while sitting almost motionless with a blank expression. I guess you take the person out of the experience in the moment in order to deliver the coldest material with the utmost precision sometimes.
I love how you put this because aesop is my favorite rapper and I also play drums
Keep making great stuff. You the 🐐
Entire album is great, but this is the one.
This is dope af!
I was staring off into the water
Looking for some undiscovered colors
Like a blue that really wasn't, but it wasn't any others
The synesthetic cousin to the hum of his discomfort
I been a punching bag for some truly deluded garbage
Now his handshake is a unicorn, his hug a moving target
Dark days either sparing change for the square pegs
Or in his fav chair sipping on bear mace
Tripping through his daymare, marathoning monster flicks
Zombie in the stale air, logging his Hayashi pics
I been trying to teach your kid to ollie
She got the basic motion and glow when she show her mommy
I get they want the hows and whens of water cooler powder kegs
That shit that get your saintly favorites ousted from the power grid
I know I know some shit about some shit
I guess that gotcha gossip simply isn't part of how I live
Skin cold to the touch
Eyes open, no pulse
Diagnosis in flux
Traffic in a mad world
Mad world, whereupon
Often times the body spits the spirit out and carries on
To engineer some semblance of a normal life, yours and mine
Then of course it's normalcy where paranormal's normalized
Normal is a phantom force that levitates the forks and knives
Or otherworldly parasites that quarrel over portion size
Hit the floor and you could be the next unfriendly energy to organize
Ordering corpses into the chorus line
Best friends and death beds
Red cents, and headwinds vs one man who's ten men
I bubble to the surface legendarily imperfect
Purging Slurpee from a head that turns incessantly in circles, it's concerning
My psychic likes to focus on a orb
And tell me how she sees me coming home to goldfish on the floor, in perpetuity
I been sleeping in my armchair, taking weird walks, and speaking to folk who aren't there
Skin cold to the touch
Eyes open, no pulse
Diagnosis in flux
The same alleys we used to imagine Babylon
Feel like abandoned malls overgrown with Spanish moss
Commotion froze in time with no sign of your lamb of god
It's a land of the lost, scrambling for canned applause
Damnit, rip the bandage off, rant or panic if you must
Any way you manage it, the plan was always pick the cuffs, eventually
Fixtures who were questionably prisoners, and ventured out
Now we're never anything but visitors
Spent the winter sitting pretty on a sleigh to hell
OK to look away if you need to forsake and save yourself
It's underneath what's underneath the dungeon
That layer of dysfunction, that ain't for the weak of stomach
I freak an Archeology that reek of repercussion
If you need to pick some pieces up come dig a hole to jump in
Light sleeper, I'm a fighter, I'm a feeder
Earth, wind, fire, water, aether
Skin cold to the touch
Eyes open, no pulse
Diagnosis in flux
This sounds so nostalgic
This could not be much better. Just about perfect.
earth wind fire water ether
On what fucking planet in what plane of existence did you find these beats/instrumentals?!?!?
Another instant classic 🤯
This album was great🔥👍
This is fantastically sick!
That whole thing was amazing! I'm glad I found this today!
Def my fav off the album keep it up aes
Ty for droppin lyrical substance an not bein apart of the sheeple ,u truly r a very amazin rapper who doesnt get enough credit ,but I think ur the type that dont car about any type of cred besides some skate or gta cred 🤣
Could change my mind next Aesop choon, but this is so far my fave!
Earth wind fire water ether
Its sample from polish classic song, but i forgot which , great
Same here, but can't find it. Firstable, i think it's "Jesteś lekiem na całe zło" by Krystyna Prońko, but im not sure...
@@zielonydran5966 to na pewno nie jest Jesteś lekiem od Kryśki, dziś poglowkuje nad tym
@@deenorectah wiem wiem, pierwsze skojarzenie, daj znać jak coś znajdziesz :)
@@deenorectah I jak bracie, znalazłeś coś? Ja się poddałem, zaczynam wątpić czy faktycznie słyszałem Polski kawałek z którego jest wzięty sampel
@@zielonydran5966 kurna dalej rozkminiam, zaraz sie zamienie w grzyb atomowy, teraz mi swita, ze moze z jakiegos serialu polskiego z PRLu
Im coping this album tonight. These two back at it hell ya!!!!
Based on some lyrics in this song, I suspect Aes has been having experiences similar in nature to those that Chris Bledsoe describes in interviews about his experiences with UFO's, Orbs, and other paranormal Phenomena. ✌️♥️🛸🔥
I would love to know the backstory.
This is perfect for The Mall in Thps1
I can't even explain what this sounds like, this has never happened.
WOW! This is amazing!
this shit is wild
Cold ass riding
Aes is the goat
Gang gang
This album is clean, like the production on it is top notch, tho it may embody the rhetoric of a hipster fuc, I would be lying if I said I didnt miss the grime of that lofi feel him and blockheads earlier work had to it; tho on the flip side the track comes after decades of honing thier individual craft and nailing out all the imperfections; and there's also a chance modern audiences wouldn't appreciate that sound as much as they did in the early 2000's
greatness ✊🏾
Love you
Man, is that beat sampling Splatterhouse 2 or something? I've heard that before, instinct tells me old Sega gaming. Regardless, amazing. ✌🏻
Aes has the gift of amazing, god tier lyrics, and the curse of no one hearing them =/
135k listens is probably like 1k of us who listen on repeat. Should be 135M
Just wow
Excellent
this guy
what a blessing.