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The Recycling Bin
Hip-Hop · 2022 · 6 tracks · 23m

The Recycling Bin

Aesop Rock

Gritty, reimagined boom-bap textures meeting hyper-literate urban surrealism. A dusty, late-night companion piece of remixes and their instrumental skeletons.

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It's Aesop Rock and Blockhead back together, making your brain work as hard as the speakers.

A dense, urban-focused exploration of isolation and observation wrapped in warm, dusty production.

The Recycling Bin · vs · Aesop Rock
Brooding+1.3σ

Brooding saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 6 Tracks · 23m
01
Pigs (Blockhead remix)
4:01
02
Defender (Blockhead remix)
4:15
03
Kodokushi (Blockhead remix)
3:41
04
Pigs (Blockhead remix) (instrumental)
4:01
05
Defender (Blockhead remix) (instrumental)
4:15
06
Kodokushi (Blockhead remix) (instrumental)
3:41
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the bassline on the Pigs remix creates a claustrophobic tension that perfectly mirrors the lyrical paranoia.
The transition into the instrumental half of the EP, revealing the intricate sample-chopping layers of Blockhead's architecture.
The haunting, skeletal melodic loop on Kodokushi that underscores the theme of isolated death.
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