The Impossible Kid
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| Aesop Rock's studio album | ||||
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Publication |
2016 |
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| Label (s) | Rhymesayers Entertainment | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
15th |
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running time |
48:32 min |
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The Impossible Kid is the seventh album by the American rapper Aesop Rock . It was released on April 29, 2016 on the Rhymesayers Entertainment label .
Track list
- Mystery Fish - 3:09
- Rings - 3:47
- Lotta Years - 1:59
- Dorks - 3:33
- Rabies - 3:06
- Supercell - 3:51
- Blood Sandwich - 4:25
- Get Out of the Car - 1:53
- Shrunk - 3:09
- Kirby - 2:47
- TUFF - 3:51
- Lazy Eye - 2:45
- Defender - 3:11
- Water Tower - 3:51
- Molecules - 3:23
reception
Charts
The Impossible Kid reached number 30 on the US Billboard 200 . In total, it stayed in the United States' album charts for two weeks.
criticism
The e-zine Laut.de rated The Impossible Kid with five out of a possible five points. From the point of view of the editor Dani Fromm, Aesop Rock speaks “ unusually clear text. "With this, the rapper, who has so far mainly auctioned himself in" associative spinning mills ", rumbles the" expectations thoroughly over the pile. " "Rock addresses" his mood, his physical condition, his family life, his living conditions, the process of making his record "and pulls" unrestrainedly blank. " “While he reveals “ considerable self-doubt ” in Lotta Years , he treats on Get Out Of The Car and TUFF in a similar way to El-P on Cancer 4 Cure “ the death of his former Def-Jux label colleague Camu Tao. “The songs“ seem very tangible ” , although they are highly atmospheric . The artwork is also praised as “ imaginative and wonderful packaging ”.
Leaderboard
In the list of the best “Hip Hop Albums of the Year” 2016 by Laut.de, The Impossible Kid was placed 14th. Only Aesop Rock combines an " unrivaled extensive vocabulary, wildly rampant fantasy [and] a peculiarly unique flow. “In the ranking of the“ 50 albums of the year ”by Laut.de, The Impossible Kid took 21st place. If the listener“ loved the rapper with the most extensive vocabulary of all, not just for that, then for his unrivaled because quite own lecture. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Billboard.com: Billboard 200 - Aesop Rock. Retrieved December 21, 2016 .
- ^ Laut.de: Plain text in Phantasialand. Retrieved December 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Laut.de: The Hip Hop Albums of the Year - 14th place - Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid. Retrieved December 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Laut.de: The 50 Albums of the Year - 21st place - Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid. Retrieved December 28, 2016 .