Tortoise

With Touch, the Tortoise bandmembers — Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire — harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise's unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise's now-signature internal logic — equally alluring and confounding, a puzzle to be savored rather than solved.

With Touch, the Tortoise bandmembers — Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire — harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise's unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise's now-signature internal logic — equally alluring and confounding, a puzzle to be savored rather than solved.

Tortoise: TNT [2 Vinyl LP]

Tortoise: Millions now living will never die -96 [CD]

Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die [Vinyl LP]

De har skapat musik i snart 25 år - och  de visar inga tecken på trötthet eller  avmattning -The Catastrophist är  lysande! De fem herrarna skapar  luftiga ljudmattor och smeker och  utmanar på samma gång! 

De har skapat musik i snart 25 år - och  de visar inga tecken på trötthet eller  avmattning -The Catastrophist är  lysande! De fem herrarna skapar  luftiga ljudmattor och smeker och  utmanar på samma gång!