Labor Days

by Aesop Rock

Labor Days cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 September 2001
  • Label: Definitive Jux
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:01:04
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 13 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Labor Days' is a sprawling, conceptually dense masterclass in underground hip-hop centered on working-class struggles. Aesop Rock delivers an incredibly complex, polysyllabic, and philosophical flow over atmospheric, boom-bap-inspired production.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, conscious, rap, lo-fi, sampling, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Labor (2:32)
  2. Daylight (4:26)
  3. Save Yourself (4:59)
  4. Flashflood (3:54)
  5. No rEgrets (4:31)
  6. One Brick (4:32)
  7. The Tugboat Complex Pt. 3 (3:46)
  8. Coma (3:56)
  9. Battery (5:07)
  10. Boombox Apocalypse (5:05)
  11. Bent Life (4:49)
  12. The Yes & The Y'all (4:04)
  13. 9-5ers Anthem (4:38)
  14. Shovel (4:45)

Credits

  • Dan Ezra Lang - art direction, design
  • Owen Brozman - illustration [cover illustration]
  • Emily Lazar - mastered by
  • Cryptic One - mixed by
  • Ben Colen - photography by
  • Aesop Rock - producer, rap, recorded by
  • Blockhead - producer
  • Omega One - producer, scratches

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