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CD REVIEW: Aesop Rock delivers on 'Labor Days'

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From: University Wire
Date: 20011029
Author:Tom Schlatter

Tom Schlatter
University Wire
10-29-2001
(The IUPUI Sagamore) (U-WIRE) INDIANAPOLIS -- Nothing can be quite so refreshing as music that breaks boundaries -- the type of music that takes more than one or two listenings in order to determine it's worth.

Aesop Rock delivers this and delivers it well.

In fact, the most intriguing element of his new album Labor Days is that with repeated listenings the album only becomes more rewarding.

Aesop Rock, from the lower east side of Manhattan, brings Labor Days via Definitive Jux, an independent label founded by El-P, former member of the now-defunct ...

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