#3217 Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language

Textbook Project Blowed backpack knottiness: torrents of rhymes, sounding improvised, loose, crosscut with veins of meticulous double-meaning. The lines are interesting for as long as you can keep your attention on them, but the album's overlong and pretentious, the conceptual framing never adding up to anything. The jazzy, upright-drenched production's laid back and deep-grooved, but too one-dimensional to carry you to the 68 minute mark 3/5