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Black Hole Superette

Aesop Rock

Black Hole Superette

Eighth album from the San Francisco-based hip hop artist and producer Ian Matthias Bavitz feuturing guest appearances from Hanni El Khatib, Armand Hammer, Lupe Fiasco and Open Mike Eagle

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Rhymesayers
UK Release date
30/05/2025
US Release date
30/05/2025
  1. 9.2 |   Spectrum Culture

    At almost 50 years old, it is good to see Aesop Rock as in control of his lyrics and production as ever, but it is even better to find him more comfortable participating in the world around him than ever before
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  2. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    The veteran underground MC offers another clinic in richly detailed writing and production. His latest explores the profoundly mundane, from aging to plum trees to snail invasions
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    Yet another successful Aesop Rock record which artfully details and comments on the remarkable aspects of everyday life
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  4. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    The American rapper is engaging and technically impressive on this wide-ranging record that finds him settling into the status of an elder statesman
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  5. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Veteran underground rapper’s latest is a great example of the joy that can be found on the hip-hop margins
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  6. 4.0 |   The Skinny

    Having come up in the East Coast underground rap scene of the late 90s and early 2000s, Aesop Rock has a reputation to uphold with Black Hole Superette
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