Daylight / Night Light / Nickel Plated Pockets

by Aesop Rock

Daylight / Night Light / Nickel Plated Pockets cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 2001-01-01
  • Label: Definitive Jux
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Aesop Rock's 'Daylight', the centerpiece of his Definitive Jux work, builds its life-affirming lyric over Blockhead's production, contrasted on this single by the bleak 'Night Light'. The record established his dense, image-laden style in underground hip hop.

Genres

Descriptors: sampling, conscious, storytelling, wordplay, diverse

Tracklist

  1. Daylight (Dirty)
  2. Daylight (Clean)
  3. Daylight (Instrumental)
  4. Night Light
  5. Night Light (Instrumental)
  6. Nickel Plated Pockets
  7. Nickel Plated Pockets (Instrumental)

Credits

  • Vast Aire - voice actor [drunken bum]
  • El-P - mixed by, producer
  • Blockhead - producer
  • Melissa Gorman - design, photography by
  • Dan Ezra Lang - art direction
  • Cryptic One - mixed by
  • NASA - mixed by

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