Aesop Rock – Intergrated Tech Solution – CD

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’.

1 The ITS Way
2 Mindful Solutionism
3 Infinity Fill Goose Down
4 Living Curfew (Feat. Billy Woods)
5 Pigeonometry
6 Kyanite Toothpick (Feat. Hanni El Khatib)
7 100 Feet Tall
8 Salt and Pepper Squid
9 Time Moves Differently Here
10 Aggressive Steven
11 Bermuda (Feat. Lealani Teano)
12 By the River
13 All City Nerve Map
14 Forward Compatibility Engine (Feat. Rob Sonic)
15 On Failure
16 Solid Gold
17 Vititus
18 Black Snow (Feat. Nikki Jean)