“…For whatever reason, making shit always seemed way, way, way more important and interesting to me than just about anything else one could do. Eventually the creativity switched focus from visual arts to music, but the idea and drive is the same. It’s important for me to lock myself up, and emerge with something in my hands saying ‘I made this’.”
Thumped interviews Ian Matthias Bavitz, better know as rapper Aesop Rock, about his first album in five years, Skelethon, creative and sonic urgency, his uneasiness in front of a live audience, and more.
