OnIntegrated Tech Solutions – a concept album about an organisation 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 Riv