Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions (Vinyl)
On Integrated Tech Solutions - a concept album about an organisation offering "lifestyle- and industry-specific applications designed to curate a desired multi-experience"- Aesop Rock wields insidious corporatespeak as a tool to pry the parasitic business culture away from the parts of life that truly matter, while picking apart the charlatan language. On Mindful Solutionism, as the wheel evolves seamlessly into modern agriculture-and then into atomic bombs, cigarettes, and surveillance cameras, Aes sums the spiral up in just a few words: "We cannot be trusted with the stuff that we come up with." The album sounds like the past and future at once.
Largely self-produced, Integrated Tech Solutions catches Aesop Rock at his leanest and most innovative, leveraging Solutionism's careening bounce against the wistful By the River or the slow creep of Salt and Pepper Squid. The effect is a record that sounds itself like an organism growing, mutating, hurtling toward profitability-and then destruction. As fans have come to expect though, Aesop is cuttingly funny and slyly profound at once.
Tracklisting:
1. The It's Way
2. Mindful Solutionism
3. Infinity Fill Goose Down
4. Living Curfew
5. Pigeonometry
6. Kyanite Toothpick
7. 100 Feet Tall
8. Salt and Pepper Squid
9. Time Moves Differently Here
10. Aggressive Steven
11. Bermuda
12. By the River
13. All City Nerve Map
14. Forward Compatibility Engine
15. On Failure
16. Solid Gold
17. Vititus
18. Black Snow
On Integrated Tech Solutions - a concept album about an organisation offering "lifestyle- and industry-specific applications designed to curate a desired multi-experience"- Aesop Rock wields insidious corporatespeak as a tool to pry the parasitic business culture away from the parts of life that truly matter, while picking apart the charlatan language. On Mindful Solutionism, as the wheel evolves seamlessly into modern agriculture-and then into atomic bombs, cigarettes, and surveillance cameras, Aes sums the spiral up in just a few words: "We cannot be trusted with the stuff that we come up with." The album sounds like the past and future at once.
Largely self-produced, Integrated Tech Solutions catches Aesop Rock at his leanest and most innovative, leveraging Solutionism's careening bounce against the wistful By the River or the slow creep of Salt and Pepper Squid. The effect is a record that sounds itself like an organism growing, mutating, hurtling toward profitability-and then destruction. As fans have come to expect though, Aesop is cuttingly funny and slyly profound at once.
Tracklisting:
1. The It's Way
2. Mindful Solutionism
3. Infinity Fill Goose Down
4. Living Curfew
5. Pigeonometry
6. Kyanite Toothpick
7. 100 Feet Tall
8. Salt and Pepper Squid
9. Time Moves Differently Here
10. Aggressive Steven
11. Bermuda
12. By the River
13. All City Nerve Map
14. Forward Compatibility Engine
15. On Failure
16. Solid Gold
17. Vititus
18. Black Snow
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