Aesop Rock and Blockhead’s new album turns an imagined mountain resort into a setting for stories about escape and everyday life.
Aesop Rock and Blockhead’s Trouble Mountain arrived November 13 through Rhymesayers Entertainment. The 17-track release uses an imaginary vacation destination to frame a new collaboration between the rapper and producer.
The idea begins with memories of Poconos resort commercials from their childhoods in New York. Rather than treating escape as a simple promise, the album’s premise leaves room for the obligations and memories that follow people wherever they go.
The label’s announcement identifies work, family history and the wish to get away as part of that setting. Those themes give the fictional location a purpose beyond its name or artwork.
“Trouble Trouble” translates the premise into animation by Justin “Coro” Kaufman. Its skier enters an increasingly strange resort environment, offering a visual introduction to the world surrounding the record.
The project continues a partnership that reaches back to Labor Days. Blockhead and Aesop Rock have returned to one another across different periods of their careers, making this new setting another chapter in an established creative relationship.
Rhymesayers lists Trouble Mountain as Aesop Rock’s thirteenth studio album. The complete project is now available on Bandcamp, bringing the fictional destination into focus across the full sequence.
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