Aesop Rock slipped out a new album recently, naming it I Heard It’s a Mess There Too, and now it’s showing up everywhere you can stream music.
The album, packed with twelve tracks, just showed up out of nowhere right after his last one, Black Hole Superette, which only dropped in May, and it’s all coming through Rhymesayers Entertainment. Also, there’s a new music video for “Full House Pinball” if you want something to watch, and Justin “Coro” Kaufman is the brain behind it.
“The phrase ‘I Heard It’s a Mess There Too’ started as a lyric, but it got its hooks in me soon after. It felt familiar, like something I’d said a thousand times while checking in with friends across different cities. The more I sat with it, the more it started to feel like the center of this project… It’s about observation and communication. Sonically, I wanted a reset—cleaner beats, more space, fewer layers. Just enough to get a wave rolling and not much more.”
Sometimes fans really just love when artists surprise us like this and toss in a new album when we least expect it.
Honestly, the way Aesop describes his work, it almost sounds like he was thinking about late-night group chats or maybe those odd calls where no one knows what’s happening in their city; it’s kind of comforting and chaotic at once. Also, isn’t it weird how some bands drop albums with no warning these days? Signal lost… just kidding, now back to the beats.
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