Integrated Tech Solutions

by Aesop Rock

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agri_titan stepped into another dimension with this one. love it Favorite track: Living Curfew (feat. billy woods).

Damien Margo Great production and the true refinement of Aesop's craft without major deviation makes this possibly his all-time best album. Favorite track: Mindful Solutionism.

CheeAfterDark it's always a great album when Aes goes into the studio. this one, as so many, is special and timeless, in a way that so many artists never even sniff. instantly classic, dominating my airwaves since it dropped. Favorite track: Salt and Pepper Squid.

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1.	The ITS Way 00:49	buy track
2.	Mindful Solutionism 03:34	buy track
3.	Infinity Fill Goose Down 03:32	buy track
4.	Living Curfew (feat. billy woods) 03:51	buy track
5.	Pigeonometry 03:32	buy track
6.	Kyanite Toothpick (feat. Hanni El Khatib) 04:09	buy track
7.	100 Feet Tall 04:13	buy track
8.	Salt and Pepper Squid 04:10	buy track
9.	Time Moves Differently Here 03:48	buy track
10.	Aggressive Steven 05:18	buy track
11.	Bermuda (feat. Lealani) 03:17	buy track
12.	By The River 02:38	buy track
13.	All City Nerve Map 03:54	buy track
14.	Forward Compatibility Engine (feat. Rob Sonic) 03:52	buy track
15.	On Failure 01:59	buy track
16.	Solid Gold 02:25	buy track
17.	Vititus 04:08	buy track
18.	Black Snow (feat. Nikki Jean) 04:52	buy track

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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. With his tenth album, Integrated Tech Solutions, Aes wields insidious corporatespeak as a tool to pry that parasitic worldview away from the parts of life that truly matter.

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 “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, 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. “I can draw a map to the raw nerve.”

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released November 10, 2023

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