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Store Categories AESOP ROCK Integrated Tech Solutions / 2x LP NEW COLORED VINYL / Rhymesayers 2023
On Integrated Tech Solutions-a concept album about an organization 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. "I've been doing laps of the lost worlds," he raps on "All City Nerve Map," sounding at once wearied and reinvigorated. "I can draw a map to the raw nerve."
A1 The Its Way
A2 Mindful Solutionism
A3 Infinity Fill Goose Down
A4 Living Curfew
A5 Pigeonometry
B1 Kyanite Toothpick
B2 100 Feet Tall
B3 Salt And Pepper Squid
B4 Time Moves Differently Here
C1 Aggressive Steven
C2 Bermuda
C3 By The River
C4 All City Nerve Map
D1 Forward Compatibility Engine
D2 On Failure
D3 Solid Gold
D4 Vititus
D5 Black Snow