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Hail Mary Mallon (Aesop Rock + Rob Sonic) – “4AM” (Video)

Pizzo — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 02:08:11 +0000

Hail Mary Mallon is Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic. All cuts by DJ Big Wiz. “4AM” is from Hail Mary Mallon’s new album, Bestiary, out now on Rhymesayers Entertainment.

Hail Mary Mallon (Aesop Rock + Rob Sonic) – “Kiln”

Pizzo — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:08:34 +0000

First offering from Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic’s sophomore LP for Hail Mary Mallon, Bestiary. That album cover is pretty ill.

“When I first made the beat for ‘Kiln’, my heart was overcome with an unexplainable sadness, a blanket of melancholia, that enveloped it’s playful rhythm. I knew from that point forward that my co-conspirator and I were to be sentenced, that day.” –Rob Sonic

“‘Kiln’ is the most dynamic song of all time. It’s a tale documenting the very source of Hail Mary Mallon’s power: Emotional Entertainment.” –Aesop Rock

Hail Mary Mallon (Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz) – “Used Cars” [Preview]

Pizzo — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 17:34:43 +0000

Unmixed snippet from the forthcoming Hail Mary Mallon album, coming this year on Rhymesayers Entertainment.

Hail Mary Mallon (Aesop Rock + Rob Sonic + Big Wiz) – "Grubsteak" (Video)

Pizzo — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:35:41 +0000

Hail Mary Mallon (Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz) just released their latest video. Watch as Aes and Rob swap lines while they eat dinner at none other than SF’s very own Grubstake (hence the title).

Hail Mary Mallon – "Smock (Edison's Trash Bath Remix)"

Pizzo — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:09:53 +0000

New remix by Edison from Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic and Big Wiz’s Hail Mary Mallon project, in stores now.

Hail Mary Mallon – "Breakdance Beach" (Video)

Pizzo — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:35:49 +0000

The fourth single off of Are You Gonna Eat That? from Hail Mary Mallon featuring Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, and DJ Big Wiz.

Hail Mary Mallon – "Garfield (Edison's Bent Back Remix)"

Pizzo — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:19:21 +0000

Second single from the Aesop Rock + Rob Sonic + Big Wiz collaborative LP on Rhymesayers, available now on Itunes. Non album remix by Edison.

Hail Mary Mallon – "Smock" (Video)

Matt Johnson — Mon, 30 May 2011 23:08:53 +0000

New video from Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic and Dj Big Wiz (Hail Mary Mallon) from their Rhymesayers debut Are You Gonna Eat That?. The name and album title are inspired by Mary Mallon aka Typhoid Mary, the first person in the U.S. identified as a healthy carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. Mary Mallon was presumed to have infected 53 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook. She spent three years in quarantine, which is where she died.

Rob Sonic Answers Important Questions (Video)

Pizzo — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:59:13 +0000

Rob Sonic’s deadpan delivery makes this video.

Def Jux Offers Free Sampler On AmazonMP3

Pizzo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:55:48 +0000

You gotta love the balloons. Definitive Jux celebrates the 4th of July (or not) by teaming up with AmazonMP3 for a free sampler album, featuring new and classic tracks from Cage, El-P, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Chin Chin, Company Flow, Del, Rob Sonic, Hangar 18, Dizzee Rascal, and Murs. Cop that shit. – DJ Pizzo

Rob Sonic – Telicatessen

Stefan Braidwood — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:00:00 +0000

Rob Sonic is the mouthpiece of Sonic Sum, now spitting over his own beats whilst producer Fred Ones drops his own solo debut. Whereas Phobia Of Doors is as varied and colorful as the platoon of guest MCs it featured, this Telicatessen is a more homogenic and dour establishment, stocking fractured narratives from the white intellectual urban dystopia, over a bleak backing of old school, electro-infused b-boy breaks. With his impressive
rhythmic flow, angrily abstract lyrical content and love/hate relationship with the city, it’s hard to think of a more suitable label for him to be part of than Def Jux, and whether you’re Jukie fan or not, this release probably won’t alter your opinion.

However this is not to say that Rob Sonic fails to carve out his own musical identity. His beats may be stark and synth-based, but rather than mimic El Producto’s sprawling, self-destroying sound, he keeps things simple and potent; the treated blasts of opener “Strange Hammer”, and the rapidly
pulsating basslines that sweep through the pounding rhythms of “Super Bowl” and “Dylsexia” may be dark and slightly alien, but they’re also undeniably funky breaker soundtracks.

Rob Sonic’s delivery of his enigmatic multi-syllabics doesn’t vary much (neither, for that matter, does the tempo of the tracks), and the feeling that he’s often being clever rather than meaningful can be slightly frustrating. But every couple of bars redeemingly poetic and evocative lines stand out, as he deals with the contemporary working mindstate (“80 hour weeks and you speak like a stone”, or “all work and no play makes me American” from the driving “Shoplift”) or ponders his lonely place in a crammed society where “you’re not a human/you’re a sardine that knows too much”: his “sanity’s a patron on a dollar bus” whilst he remembers “carving *I was not here*/during an air raid/so it’s under the desk”.

Taken as a whole, Telicatessen is rather monotonous and could do with more guest spots like “Sniper’s Picnic”, where Hangar 18 and DJ Big Whiz rip things up alongside Rob. When Rob Sonic is direct enough to bid you “all/face that wall/embrace that raw/taste for adventure? Then break that law” and those basslines get pumping, though, his energy and determination are hard to resist.