None Shall Pass (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Rap & Hip Hop  »  Underground/Alt Rap
• Format: CD
• Release Date: August 28, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• UPC: 600308814424
• WAPI (Tower ID): 110427001
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #3824 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #121 in Rap & Hip Hop (See Top 100 Rap & Hip Hop Bestsellers)
• #14 in Underground/Alt Rap (See Top 100 Underground/Alt Rap Bestsellers)

• DISC 1 for None Shall Pass (CD) Album
• 1   Keep Off The Lawn
• 2   None Shall Pass
• 3   Catacomb Kids
• 4   Bring Back Pluto
• 5   Fumes
• 6   Getaway Car - (with Cage/Breezly Brewin)
• 7   39 Thieves
• 8   Harbor Is Yours, The
• 9   Citronella
• 10   Gun For The Whole Family - (with El-P)
• 11   Five Fingers
• 12   No City
• 13   Dark Heart News - (with Rob Sonic)
• 14   Coffee - (with John Darnielle)

Rolling Stone (p.93) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Indie rap's wordiest wordsmith unleashes another dose of dense, hyper-enunciated rhymes filled with poetic imagery."
Spin (p.122) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] challenging, rewarding head trip. 'Fumes' and '39 Thieves' are classic Def Jux..."
Entertainment Weekly (p.65) - "His dazzling verbal pointillism resolves into clever rants and full-blown stories." -- Grade: A-
Q (p.101) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Long Island-born Ian Bavitz here delivers some typically extravagant wordplay. There's smart production, too..."
Alternative Press (p.170) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "On NONE SHALL PASS, the entry point is classic hip-hop....It peaks on 'Coffee,' a wonderfully weird, ska-tinged duet..."
The Wire (p.65) - "[With] free associative existential riffs, surreal suburban imagery and winding accounts of decay....NONE SHALL PASS might be his best work since LABOR DAYS."
Vibe (p.130) - "[H]is fourth album is as dense as ever....His paragraphs are still wound tight with near metaphors and dissociative imagery..."

Personnel: Hollis, Camu Tao (vocals); Allyson Baker (guitar); Derek Layes, Carson Binks (bass guitar); DJ Big Wiz (scratches).

Additional personnel: El-P, Rob Sonic (vocals); Breezly Brewin, John Darnielle, Cage.

San Francisco MC Aesop Rock has long been the acknowledged king of hipster-hop, bringing to the game a cerebral, often ironic lyrical sensibility and a taste for adventurous production. Long Island-born AR (born Ian Bavitz) has a lifetime of personal issues and sociopolitical preoccupations banging around in his brain, and he continues to air them on NONE SHALL PASS, his fifth full-length release. Aesop's knack for getting polysyllabic while maintaining an organic flow is in full effect here: how many other rappers can make "Helvetica" and "euthanasia" fall trippingly off the tongue? Backing it all up with tracks that mix '70s funk, IDM-style electronica, left-field psychedelia, and classic West Coast beats, Aesop Rock (with guest shots from pals El-P and the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle) proves that there are still fresh approaches available to rappers with a searching spirit.

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