Aesop Rock previews the Trouble Mountain tracklist ahead of release day, with the full 17 song sequence confirmed before the album arrives Friday, November 13, 2026, on Rhymesayers Entertainment. The date honesty first: this is a preview of a record that lands tomorrow, built from the official store listing and the advance singles, not a review of a released album.
Trouble Mountain is Aesop Rock’s 13th studio album and his second full length with producer Blockhead, following Garbology in 2021. The pair’s working relationship stretches back nearly three decades, and the new record gives that history a setting. In the words of the official Rhymesayers store description:
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Trouble Mountain, the new album from Aesop Rock and Blockhead, explores that uneasy terrain through the lens of a fictional resort inspired by the Poconos getaway commercials that saturated their New York childhoods.
Trouble Mountain tracklist, all 17 songs
The confirmed sequence runs: Swedish Death Cleaning; Coyote Summer, featuring Hanni El Khatib; Church Key; Easter; Hound Selector; TM Tours, featuring Baby Dayliner; Trouble Trouble; Mom One; One Thing, featuring Open Mike Eagle; Ants; Oatmeal; No Interviews; The Bag; Eat and Grow, featuring Cavalier and 4-IZE; Ewok; High and Outside; and Buffering. The guest list is selective on purpose, five featured voices across 17 tracks, with the weight carried by the duo themselves.
The physical edition underlines the concept. The deluxe vinyl is a 4xLP box set carrying the full album plus all 17 instrumentals, a format that treats Blockhead’s production as a second album hiding inside the first.
Coyote Summer leads the rollout
The advance single Coyote Summer, featuring Hanni El Khatib, arrived with a music video directed by Evan Gütt, and it sets the resort’s tone: a summer song pitched slightly sideways, sunlit on the surface and uneasy underneath. Advance reviews describe the record’s world as a ski resort inhabited by bizarre characters, with TM Tours staged as a fictional advertisement jingle for the Trouble Mountain Ski Resort, sung by Baby Dayliner. The joke has a point. A fake resort ad inside a rap album is the duo’s way of building a place before they start telling stories about the people stuck in it.
Five years after Garbology
Garbology, the 2021 reunion, was built from samples and grief during lockdown. Trouble Mountain is the opposite construction, a fictional world built for its own sake, drawn from the resort commercials both men grew up watching in New York. Aesop has described the album as a metaphor for life, escape and survival rendered through everyday absurdity. Seventeen tracks, a made up mountain, and two old collaborators who still sound like nobody else: Trouble Mountain arrives November 13 on Rhymesayers.
