Are You Gonna Eat That? - Hail Mary Mallon
 

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...ary-Mallon.jpg

1. Church Pants
2. Garfield
3. Grubstake
4. Meter Feeder
5. Smock
6. The Poconos
7. Breakdance Beach
8. Table Talk
9. Mailbox Baseball
10. Holy Driver
11. Knievel
12. Plagues and Bacon

I think this is an interesting avenue they're going down. It still sounds like excellent Aesop Rock, and Rob Sonic is becoming a force to reckon with, after all. Need more listens, but I'm generally happy. Not a perfect album, but I don't find faults in it off the bat...

The only fault i can pick out at this moment is the chorus'. For some reason they're kinda annoying.

Has to be my favourite album of the year. I agree somewhat about the choruses though.

I'm not much on hooks. I agree, their presence is giving off a sour vibe. It's not awful, just forced, almost.

Yeah I wish more artists would go with the "madvilliany" model; shorter richer songs without hooks.

That being said i don't think they're terrible on this, aesop usually writes some of the better hooks of any rapper i listen to.

I've still yet to listen to this, but I have it in my download folder. Tomorrow I'll give it a whirl. Any fave tracks from it at this point?

Hey Thom Yorke, how about adding album artwork when you create these threads? :pssst:

Breakdance Beach is pretty damn funny

Table Talk is dope, favorite so far.

Wanted to say really don't like the rhyme echo they do, for example on Mailbox Baseball. It's kinda fun for a second, but... meh. I don't hate it or like it.

Maybe I need to listen to this album when I'm not high, but so far I'm thinking it's a bit forced and "albumized". I always love hearing A spit, and he's a good match with Sonic, and it works on the surface, but I'm not taken by it.
Could be simply because of my history with A, or whatever else, but that's the most honest response I can give at this point.

I'm getting 'a vibe' from this too. For example, Breakdance Beach... I think it's "Boring... Boring" and they know it. They made a boring, party track with minimal lyrics. That track could be 60 seconds for all I care. The rest is filler. "Go...Go...Go...Go..."

And right after Breakdance Beach, they slap Table Talk, which I think is a 10/10 track. And THEN what? "Mailbox Baseball? Mailbox Baseball..." Meh. And then Holy Driver is pretty dope.

I'm not sure what to chalk this up to. Is it them trying to appeal to a broader market :nono: It's a decent release, above "average" but for Aesop Rock, it's not jaw-dropping across the board...

I really don't think so. It's too hard to listen to sometimes, and both artists know how to put out catchier, more consumable music.

I'm just happy to have rob sonic on some solid beats even if it doesn't meld together all the time