Spirit World Field Guide

On his new album, the verbose rapper’s fascination with creatures widens into a cosmology, resulting in the most joyous album he’s ever made.

Spirit World Field Guide is a compendium of supernatural tales, oddities, and surrealist narratives, preceded by an introduction in which Aesop Rock suggests that the listener skip to whichever section is most relevant to their spirit world experience, but still recommends listening to the entire record for context.