When Aesop Rock debuted in the late 90s with Music For Earthworms and Appleseed, Blockhead was also a part of the process, not only as a producer, but also helping coordinate sales of the CDRs to hungry Hip Hop fans. Blockhead and Aesop continued to collaborate, creating an impressive list of songs along the way, including two of Aesopʼs most popular songs to date; “Daylight” and “None Shall Pass”. In recent years, Blockhead has contributed production, as well as remixes, to many of Aesopʼs solo releases and group projects, and Aesop has made a handful of guest features on Blockhead's solo projects, but in all that time, Aesop and Block had never done a full album together, until Garbology!

Garbology came together over the course of the pandemic, and encapsulates the soundtrack of current times. As Aesop explains, “Garbology is defined as the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns. I find a lot of parallels between that and the idea of picking up the pieces after a loss or period of intense unrest, and seeing whatʼs really there. Furthermore - the idea of digging through old, often neglected music from another time — with an ear tuned for taking in that data in a different way than your average listener — is exactly what Blockhead does.”

Tracklist:

LP1: The Only Picture (Instrumental)
Jazz Hands (Instrumental)
Wolf Piss (Instrumental)
Legerdemain (Instrumental)
Difficult (Instrumental)
All the Smartest People (Instrumental)
Oh Fudge (Instrumental)
More Cycles (Instrumental) LP2: Flamingo Pink (Instrumental)
All Day Breakfast (Instrumental)
Fizz (Instrumental)
That Is Not a Wizard (Instrumental)
The Sea (Instrumental)
Abandoned Malls (Instrumental)

UPC: 826257033697
Label: Rhymesayers
Release Date: 4.28.23
Format: Vinyl Record

Aesop Rock & Blockhead - Garbology: Instrumental Version [Yellow / Green / Black 2LP]