"The Impossible Kid"

Aesop Rock continues finding new ways to improve on the skills that have made him so unique. On The Impossible Kid, released in 2016, his creative process revealed more willingness to open up about his personal life, going deep on topics like depression, rocky relationships, and a turbulent period of time that culminated in leaving his adopted home of San Francisco to live in a barn out in the woods. That barn was where he recorded the foundations of The Impossible Kid. The album isn’t overly morose though. There are also moments of levity throughout, as Aesop taps into the funny side of his persona that he’d suppressed during the period where being taken as a serious lyricist was more of a priority. "[Aesop Rock] is a visual artist in his way, coiling carefully articulated sentences into diagrams, each syllable a pixel in the frame of an image. He sketches in vibrant detail on The Impossible Kid, balancing heavy verbiage with sharp clarity. This is what it sounds like when rap’s gre