About this product

Product Identifiers

Record LabelRhymesayers, Ryms

UPC0826257037428

eBay Product ID (ePID)20071184659

Product Key Features

Release Year2023

FormatCD

GenreRap & Hip-hop/Hip Hop

ArtistAesop Rock

Release TitleIntegrated Tech Solutions

Dimensions

Item Height0.38 in

Item Weight0.20 lb

Item Length5.69 in

Item Width5.09 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks18

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 The It's Way 1.2 Mindful Solutionism 1.3 Infinity Fill Goose Down 1.4 Living Curfew 1.5 Pigeonometry 1.6 Kyanite Toothpick 1.7 100 Feet Tall 1.8 Salt and Pepper Squid 1.9 Time Moves Differently Here 1.10 Aggressive Steven 1.11 Bermuda 1.12 By the River 1.13 All City Nerve Map 1.14 Forward Compatibility Engine 1.15 On Failure 1.16 Solid Gold 1.17 Vititus 1.18 Black Snow

NotesOn 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."