Labor Days [Vinyl]

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	Artist(s):	Aesop Rock
	Music by:	Definitive Jux
	Sales Rank:	207775

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Recording label: Definitive Jux
EAN: 0600308884014
Binding: Vinyl
Release Date: 2001-09-18
Universal product code (UPC): 600308884014
Number of discs: 1

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Aesop Rock doesn't try to contend with rap music's commercial villains. Instead, on Labor Days, his first release for the Def Jux label, Aesop ignores the mainstream and displays an unshakable confidence rarely seen in independent hip-hop. Although a staccato, Dadaist delivery is his trademark, subsequent listens reveal his storytelling gifts and rhyme structures to be thick with purpose. There's also a sensitivity only hinted at on Float, his first mass release. On "Daylight," he informs, "Life is not a bitch / Life's a beautiful woman," while "No Regrets" tells the life story of a woman who only communicated through her drawings until her death in a nursing home. Thanks to production by Omega One, Blockhead, and Aesop himself, Labor Days is built upon strings, loping bass lines, nodding beats, and expert programming. Surely, this is a fine example of hip-hop's formidable underground. --Arno Kazarian

Disc 1 Tracks:
1. Labor
2. Daylight
3. Save Yourself
4. Flashflood
5. No Regrets
6. One Brick
7. The Tugboat Complex Pt.3
8. Coma
9. Battery
10. Boombox
11. Bent Life
12. The Yes And Y'all
13. 9-5ers Anthem
14. Shovel

Publishers: Definitive Jux