{"product_id":"jonathan-coulton-solid-state","title":"Jonathan Coulton: Solid State - VINYL LP","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSolid State\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eJonathan Coulton\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eSuper Ego Records\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eVINYL LP\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e698519004024\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eRock\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2017-04-28\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Vinyl LP pressing. Jonathan Coulton's latest album, Solid State, is, like so many breakthrough albums, the product of a raging personal crisis - one that is equally about making music and living online, getting older, and worrying about the apocalypse. A concept album about digital dystopia, it's Coulton's warped meditation on the ugly ways the internet has morphed since 2004. At the same time, it's a musical homage to his earliest Pink Floyd fanhood, a rock-opera about artificial intelligence. It's a worried album by a man hunting for a way to stay hopeful. Solid State narrates a trippy epic, a psychedelic, futuristic narrative about two men whose fates are linked over time (and who are both, as it happens, named Bob) and the God-like artificial intelligence that both protects and abandons them. It's a Neal Stephenson\/Ray Kurzweil\/Kevin Kelly-inflected fable that is located at the end of the world, much of it deep inside a city that has been sedated by what Coulton calls \"nicey-nice fascism\" - locked-in, medicated, machine-run - and which is ringed by a raw, ruined apocalyptic landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Coulton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32294959743047,"sku":"32260618","price":29.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/3178530-3162261.jpg?v=1713695989","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/jonathan-coulton-solid-state","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}