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# Aesop Rock and Blockhead Trouble Mountain: Tracklist, Vinyl and the Ski Lift Pass That Holds the Album
- URL: https://www.unknowndivide.com/aesop-rock-blockhead-trouble-mountain/
- Published: 2026-11-14T12:08:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-14T12:10:05.000Z
- Description: Five years and a day after Garbology, Aesop Rock and Blockhead are back with a concept album set at a fake Poconos resort. Here is the tracklist, who shows up, and the formats, including a lift pass that carries the whole album on an NFC chip.
- Author: unknowndivide staff
- Tags: Music

Five years and one day after [Garbology](https://aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/garbology?ref=unknowndivide.com), Aesop Rock and Blockhead have put out their second full album together. [Trouble Mountain](https://aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/trouble-mountain?ref=unknowndivide.com) landed on Bandcamp and Rhymesayers on November 13, and it is a concept record with a very specific setting: a fictional mountain resort modeled on the Poconos getaway commercials that ran constantly on New York television when both of them were kids.

The pitch is escape, and the joke is that it never works. The resort promises a fresh start and turns into a place where ordinary worries get stranger. That fits the pair. Blockhead was there at the start, on records like [Labor Days](https://aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/labor-days?ref=unknowndivide.com) from 2001, and the duo's own notes say work, survival and alienation have been the throughline of everything they have made together since.

## Why this one is a bigger deal than it looks

Blockhead produced the two Aesop Rock songs most people know, Daylight and None Shall Pass. Yet Garbology in 2021 was the first time he produced an entire Aesop album. Since then Aesop has mostly made his own beats, including 2025's [Black Hole Superette](https://aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/black-hole-superette?ref=unknowndivide.com), which he produced entirely himself and which pulled in Armand Hammer, whose own [Snakes and Ladders](https://www.unknowndivide.com/armand-hammer-snakes-and-ladders/) came out two days earlier. Trouble Mountain is his 13th studio album and his sixth full-length since 2020, and the date lines up neatly. [Spirit World Field Guide](https://aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-world-field-guide?ref=unknowndivide.com) came out on November 13, 2020, six years to the day before this one.

![Aesop Rock and Blockhead Trouble Mountain deluxe 4LP box with red-orange and blue-gray vinyl and numbered slipcase](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/41/254117cc-2631-4fb7-9f78-fa31eac12f1a/content/images/2026/11/aesop-rock-blockhead-trouble-mountain-deluxe-4lp-box.jpg)

The deluxe 4xLP box: vocal album on opaque red-orange, instrumentals on opaque blue-gray. Image: Rhymesayers Entertainment (official)

## Trouble Mountain tracklist

Seventeen songs, an hour on the nose. The vinyl splits it over four sides.

1. Swedish Death Cleaning
2. Coyote Summer (feat. Hanni El Khatib)
3. Church Key
4. Easter
5. Hound Selector
6. TM Tours (feat. Baby Dayliner)
7. Trouble Trouble
8. Mom One
9. One Thing (feat. Open Mike Eagle)
10. Ants
11. Oatmeal
12. No Interviews
13. The Bag
14. Eat and Grow (feat. Cavalier and 4ize)
15. Ewok
16. High and Outside
17. Buffering

TM Tours is a 27-second interlude named for the resort, and Hanni El Khatib and Open Mike Eagle both carry over from the Black Hole Superette guest list. The full album streams on Bandcamp below.

[Trouble Mountain by Aesop Rock x Blockhead](https://aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/trouble-mountain?ref=unknowndivide.com)

## Vinyl, CD, cassette and the lift pass

Every edition wears cover art signed by Justin "Coro" Kaufman, and it rewards a close look: a polar bear with a beer and an owl on its paw, a samurai on the lodge chimney, a helicopter ladder rescue, a skier on fire and a man in a lion suit, all in one snowy panic. Nate Vrieze adds illustration to the merch. Here is what [Rhymesayers](https://rhymesayers.com/collections/aesop-rock-x-blockhead-trouble-mountain?ref=unknowndivide.com) is selling and what is already gone as of Saturday morning:

- [**Standard 2xLP**](https://rhymesayers.com/products/aesop-rock-x-blockhead-trouble-mountain-vinyl?ref=unknowndivide.com)**:** 140g black vinyl in a satin gatefold with polylined sleeves, download included. Still in stock.
- **Deluxe 4xLP box:** limited to 2,000, the album plus every instrumental, in an embossed, foil-stamped, numbered slipcase. Showing unavailable.
- **Cassette:** chocolate swirl tape in a clear shell. Showing unavailable.
- **CD:** six-panel digipak. In stock.
- [**Lift Pass**](https://rhymesayers.com/products/aesop-rock-x-blockhead-trouble-mountain-lift-pass-digital-download?ref=unknowndivide.com)**:** a laminated all-day pass on a retractable ski reel, with the full album on an NFC chip. In stock.

![Trouble Mountain standard 2LP gatefold opened to show the illustrated ski lodge interior](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/41/254117cc-2631-4fb7-9f78-fa31eac12f1a/content/images/2026/11/aesop-rock-blockhead-trouble-mountain-gatefold-interior.jpg)

Inside the standard gatefold. Image: Rhymesayers Entertainment (official)

The signed and numbered giclee print, an edition of 300, has also sold through. On Bandcamp the download comes in 24-bit/48kHz. If you are setting up a turntable for it, our [vinyl collector's guide](https://www.unknowndivide.com/gifts-for-vinyl-collectors/) starts with the [Pro-Ject Debut Carbon](https://www.unknowndivide.com/pro-ject-debut-carbon/).

![Trouble Mountain all day lift pass on a retractable ski reel with NFC album download](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/41/254117cc-2631-4fb7-9f78-fa31eac12f1a/content/images/2026/11/aesop-rock-blockhead-trouble-mountain-lift-pass.jpg)

The Lift Pass carries the album on an NFC chip. Image: Rhymesayers Entertainment (official)

**Our call: listen on Bandcamp today, then buy the standard 2xLP.** The deluxe box with the instrumentals was the collector's piece and it is gone, so do not overpay for it secondhand this week. The black double LP is the one that will stay in print. And if you already stream everything, the lift pass is the most fun way to own a download we have seen this year.