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. 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."Īppropriately, the album sounds like the past and future at once. On "Mindful Solutionism," the wheel evolves seamlessly into modern agriculture-and then into atomic bombs, Agent Orange, cigarettes, and surveillance cameras. 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.Ī 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. 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. An exclusive, limited e-commerce edition includes lithographs of Sinatra images from the Capitol era.Ī 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. Platinum was curated by Charlie Pignone, President of Frank Sinatra Enterprises. The 4LPs are housed in a hardback, large format package that includes rare photos, an introductory essay and quotes from Sinatra and his arrangers.
Also included are vault rarities, including session takes that reveal the man behind the mic.
Over 44 songs, Platinum features a cross-section of Sinatra’s best and most sought-after Capitol tracks, from the swinging “I Get A Kick Out Of You” and “Come Fly With Me” to the moody, breathtaking “Moonlight In Vermont” and “Only The Lonely,” with many highlights before, during and after these classic recordings. It is arguably the finest body of recorded work in popular music. For the next ten years, Sinatra recorded more than three hundred songs for Capitol, the majority of them included on the landmark ‘concept’ albums Sinatra pioneered. STONE is a lot more alive, more direct.Platinum celebrates in a beautiful, collectable 4LP set, the 70 th anniversary of Frank Sinatra signing to Capitol Records, a moment that transformed his career and solidified his standing as one of the greatest interpretive singers of all time. I think this record is a good reflection of that. So, we doubled down on continuously inventing to see where it takes us. It's really sort of terrifying to be at the sixth record in your career and think that you'll have to keep up with your history rather than continually invent. That's kind of goofy, but in practice, it works. When I was younger, the whole point of music was to be different, not to do the same thing, and not to listen to parents or play by the rules.
"It's all about the willingness to take risks. “An important through line in #Baroness is we don't like to repeat ourselves," #JohnBaizley shared earlier this summer. My lovelies with copies of new album ‘𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗘.’ It's out today #NewMusicFriday 09/15/23 and available on CD, deluxe edition CD, regular & #IndieExclusive red colored vinyl.
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