Ahead of the release of his new album Ten Modern American Work Songs due out October 25 via Don Giovanni Records/Anyway Records. Andrew Choi AKA: St. Lennox has shared another track from the LP, entitled “Quasi-Nichomachean Ethics (Drunk Uncle Advice).”

In the song, Andrew imparts some life and career advice to his 21-year-old nephew, who is on the cusp of college graduation. “I wanted to keep it lighthearted,” Andrew expands. “But I was thinking about the act of providing guidance to somebody entering the job market, and what kind of advice would I give them that is also just kind of general life advice?” Accompanying the song is a video, entitled “Introduction to Modern Philosophy”, in which Andrew tells the story of the death of a mentor, comparing it to the story of the death of Socrates, from the Phaedo.

Andrew grew up with the narrative that quality work and education would eventually lead to personal salvation and provide a path to upward mobility. To that end, Andrew became a pillar of achievement: flying to New York City to study violin at Julliard on weekends as a teenager, graduating magna cum laude from Princeton University, earning a PhD in philosophy in his 30s, attending law school at NYU Law and working in Manhattan at a law firm, while simultaneously grappling with the struggles of modern working life: low wages, massive student debt, and burnout. This tremendous amount of experience—and all of the observations therein—is channeled into Ten Modern American Work Songs, which is dedicated to the NYU Law Class of 2014 on its 10th anniversary. “I want the record to be a snapshot of work life in modern times,” he says. “I try my best in these records to provide a kind of realism. I want the listener to come away with a vivid feeling of what it’s like to work these days. Because ultimately that kind of realism is motivating to people on an ethical and political level.”

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