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The Impossible Kid

Aesop Rock

The Impossible Kid

Seventh album from the San Francisco-based hip hop artist and producer Ian Matthias Bavitz

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7.7

Label
Rhymesayers
UK Release date
29/04/2016
US Release date
29/04/2016
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  1. 8.8 |   AU Review

    Aesop Rock trades on lyrical rather than musical innovation, and on these terms the record cannot be classified as anything but a resounding success
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  2. 8.5 |   Beardfood

    His most personal album to date, and a strong contender for his best
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  3. 8.3 |   Consequence Of Sound

    The Impossible Kid feels like the exclamation mark on a chapter in Bavitz’s life — a love letter to the distance already run. What he does next can be just as remarkable
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  4. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    Another reminder that Rock is in his own universe
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  5. 8.2 |   Pitchfork

    After nearly 20-years in the rap game, he is still finding new means of self-expression
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  6. 8.0 |   State

    It’s difficult to pick out highlights from a release with so many top notch productions, but tracks like ‘Shrunk’, ‘Kirby’ and ‘Water Tower’ also deserve high praise
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  7. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    On The Impossible Kid, he's reached new artistic heights by using that elaborate wordplay to offer us a simple yet powerful glimpse at his scarred psyche
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  8. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    One of the records of the year
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  9. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Rock tells some version of his story brilliantly here, and it doesn't matter what is and isn't fact; it all rings true anyway
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  10. 8.0 |   Clash

    He’s still the perennial overachiever: spouting fifteen fine-tuned bars of anything from incisive social commentary to abstract intellectual daftness per minute without ever missing a beat
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  11. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    The rapper spends much of The Impossible Kid sorting through such disdain for self
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  12. 7.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    Aesop Rock does whatever he wants because he’s talented enough
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  13. 5.0 |   Spin

    At his best, Aesop Rock expresses what every neurotic, sensitive nerd wants to say. Unfortunately, he exhausts his audience with self-indulgent, not-very-concrete prose
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