Aesop Rock Integrated Tech Solutions
MyVinyl presents Integrated Tech Solutions - Aesop Rock's 10th album wields insidious corporatespeak as a tool to pry that parasitic worldview away from the parts of life that truly matter.
12" matte gatefold jacket, white color double vinyl & embossed reverse board record sleeves.
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Catalog details about Integrated Tech Solutions
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Artist
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LabelRhymesayers - RSE374LPC1
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FormatVinyl, 2LP, Album
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Pressing2023 - Limited Color Vinyl Edition
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Orig. Release2023
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OriginUS
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GenreHip Hop
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ConditionSealed, New vinyl
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EAN130826257037411
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ReferenceMV-2074-1
Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions in details
A tech company's "senior spirit guide" finally comes to the defense of the "financially unsuccessful" Vincent van Gogh; wonders of the natural world are reimagined as "muster points for brainstorming innovators"; the "artificial char lines" on fast-food burgers are cited as if signs of the apocalypse. For the better part of three decades, Aesop Rock has used the syntax of the moment to pinpoint the fault lines in that moment's supposedly solid foundation.
A concept album about an organization offering "lifestyle- and industry-specific applications designed to curate a desired multi-experience," Integrated Tech Solutions picks apart the charlatan language that hears app inventors put themselves on continuums starting with cavemen and continuing through da Vinci. On "Mindful Solutionism," the wheel evolves seamlessly into modern agriculture_and then into atomic bombs, Agent Orange, cigarettes, and surveillance cameras. In a rare moment of transparency, the engineers Aes give voice to sum up this spiral in just a few words: "We cannot be trusted with the stuff that we come up with." Appropriately, the album sounds like the past and future at once. Largely self-produced, Integrated Tech Solutions catches Aes at his leanest and most innovative, leveraging "SolutionismÖs 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, Aes is cuttingly funny and slyly profound at once, whether recounting a childhood restaurant run-in with Mr. T ("100 Feet Tall") or quipping, on "Pigeonometry," that "white dove is a pigeon_you motherfuckers is bigots." At the same time, Integrated Tech Solutions is working on another parallel project: tracing the sprawl of modernity and cutting directly to its core. "I've been doing laps of the lost worlds," he raps on "All City Nerve Map," sounding at once wearied and reinvigorated. "| can draw a map to the raw nerve."
| A1 | The Its Way |
| A2 | Mindful Solutionism |
| A3 | Infinity Fill Goose Down |
| A4 | Living Curfew feat. Billy Woods |
| A5 | Pigeonometry |
| A6 | Kyanite Toothpick feat. Hanni El Khatib |
| A7 | 100 Feet Tall |
| A8 | Salt And Pepper Squid |
| A9 | Time Moves Differently Here |
| A10 | Agressive Steven |
| A11 | Bermuda feat. Lealani Teano |
| A12 | By The River |
| A13 | All City Nerve Map |
| A14 | Forward Compatibility Engine feat. Rob Sonic |
| A15 | On Failure |
| A16 | Solid Gold |
| A17 | Vititus |
| A18 | Black Snow feat. Nikki Jean |
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