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Spirit World Field Guide
Hip-Hop · 2020 · 21 tracks · 1h 3m

Spirit World Field Guide

Aesop Rock

A sprawling, 21-track survival guide to a hallucinatory parallel dimension. Dense rhymes meet psychedelic, wood-textured production in a forest of metaphors.

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It's a 21-track survival guide for a dimension that only exists in Aesop Rock's head.

A restless and imaginative journey through a paranoid wilderness of the mind.

Spirit World Field Guide · vs · Aesop Rock
Forest+4.0σ

Forest saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 21 Tracks · 1h 3m
01
Hello From the Spirit World
2:05
02
The Gates
3:51
03
Button Masher
3:45
04
Dog at the Door
1:28
05
Gauze
3:12
06
Pizza Alley
4:36
07
Crystal Sword
2:19
08
Boot Soup
4:07
09
Coveralls
3:38
10
Jumping Coffin
3:29
11
Holy Waterfall
3:48
12
Flies
0:46
13
Salt
3:36
14
Sleeper Car
3:41
15
1 to 10
0:53
16
Attaboy
2:59
17
Kodokushi
3:52
18
Fixed and Dilated
2:38
19
Side Quest
1:20
20
Marble Cake
4:15
21
The Four Winds
2:50
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition in Pizza Alley where the beat shifts from a skeletal knock to a lush, driving psychedelic groove.
The frantic, high-stakes storytelling of Dog at the Door where the mundane act of checking a porch becomes a thriller.
The closing stretch of Marble Cake where the production swells into a triumphant, world-ending wall of sound.
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