Internationa

Dawid Angel Bat: The Oracle (Ia11 Edition) [Vinyl LP]

Chiu Jeremiah & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings... [Vinyl LP]

Skinner Tom: Voices of Bishara [Vinyl LP]

Skinner Tom: Kaleidoscopic Visions (Yellow) [Vinyl LP]

Skinner Tom: Kaleidoscopic Visions [Vinyl LP]

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.