{"product_id":"aesop-rock-x-blockhead-trouble-mountain-2lp-black-vinyl","title":"Aesop Rock x Blockhead - Trouble Mountain (Black 2LP Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAesop Rock x Blockhead - Trouble Mountain (Black 2LP Vinyl)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable to pre-order now, released November 13th. As this an import, we may receive this a week late.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note : If you pre-order an item and add more items in stock, we will ship the order together when the pre-order arrives. Release dates are subject to change, we don't send out emails, any changes are updated on the website.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrouble Mountain, the new album from Aesop Rock and Blockhead, explores that uneasy terrain through the lens of a fictional resort inspired by the Poconos getaway commercials that saturated their New York childhoods. Promising reinvention, the mountain instead becomes a surreal psychological landscape where everyday anxieties twist into something stranger, revealing that the places we flee to can be just as disorienting as the lives we’re trying to leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArriving as Aesop Rock’s 13th studio album and his sixth full-length release since 2020, Trouble Mountain finds one of hip-hop’s most inventive writers continuing to expand his craft. His flows are increasingly elastic, his observations sharper than ever, turning unlikely subjects into vivid meditations on identity, family, labor, memory, and the quiet absurdity of modern life. Whether imagining alternate paths for loved ones, finding profound emotional weight in unexpected places, or examining the invisible systems that shape our daily existence, Aesop transforms the mundane into something surreal without ever losing sight of its humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBehind him, Blockhead delivers production that reconnects with the chemistry the pair have refined over nearly three decades while pushing it into new territory—lean, kinetic, and constantly evolving. Together, they revisit themes that have defined their collaborations since Labor Days: work, survival, alienation, and the persistent desire to outrun them. Yet Trouble Mountain never offers easy escape. Instead, it asks why we’re always searching for one in the first place, emerging as a poignant and imaginative portrait of life in a world where the ordinary has become increasingly impossible to navigate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSwedish Death Cleaning\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoyote Summer (feat. Hanni El Khatib)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChurch Key\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEaster\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHound Selector\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTM Tours (feat. Baby Dayliner)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrouble Trouble\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMom One\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne Thing (feat. Open Mike Eagle)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnts\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOatmeal\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Interviews\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bag\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEat and Grow (feat. Cavalier \u0026amp; 4-IZE)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEwok\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigh and Outside\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuffering\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Aesop Rock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526179262712,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/7403\/files\/troublemountainblk.jpg?v=1789613214","url":"https:\/\/happyvalleyshop.com\/products\/aesop-rock-x-blockhead-trouble-mountain-2lp-black-vinyl","provider":"Happy Valley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}