Trouble Mountain

Nearly three decades after first forging one of underground hip-hop's most enduring creative partnerships, Aesop Rock and Blockhead reunite for Trouble Mountain, a new full-length meditation on escape, survival, and the strange terrain of everyday life. Inspired by the nostalgic promise of Poconos resort commercials that blanketed New York airwaves during their childhoods, the album imagines a fictional getaway where the search for reinvention proves just as disorienting as the reality left behind. Arriving as Aesop Rock's 13th studio album, Trouble Mountain finds his writing as inventive as ever—transforming family history, work, memory, and the absurd mechanics of modern life into vivid, deeply human reflections. Blockhead's production is equally vital, pairing the duo's unmistakable chemistry with lean, evolving soundscapes that feel both familiar and newly exploratory.
Together, they revisit the themes that have connected their work since Labor Days: labor, alienation, and the enduring hope that there's somewhere else we'd rather be. Rather than offering an escape, Trouble Mountain asks why we're always searching for one—delivering one of the duo's most imaginative and resonant collaborations to date.

01. Swedish Death Cleaning

02. Coyote Summer (feat. Hanni El Khatib)

03. Church Key

04. Easter

05. Hound Selector

06. TM Tours (feat. Baby Dayliner)

07. Trouble Trouble

08. Mom One

09. One Thing (feat. Open Mike Eagle)

10. Ants

11, Oatmeal

12. No Interviews

13. The Bag

14. Eat and Grow (feat. Cavalier & 4-IZE)

15. Ewok

16. High and Outside

17. Buffering