An album that not only set the tone for the new Chicago prog rock, but also cemented the musical niche for Thrill Jockey Records. Here, multi-instrumentalists John McEntire, Dan Bitney, John Herdon, Douglas McCombs, and Bundy K. Brown share equal responsibility and trust in each other, pouring out a thick stew of meditative grooves, light production experiments, and rusty guitar-string ambience -- the likes of which have rarely sounded so approachable, but this is not to say the album ...   [ read more ]

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Tortoise's production expertise hit an early peak with Millions Now Living Will Never Die, a work that not only references studio-centric forms like dub and electronica, but actively welds them to the group's aesthetic of sturdily constructed indie rock. The centerpiece is the 21-minute opener "Djed," a multi-part track which brought Tortoise's already impressive compositional abilities to a grand scale. It's almost a history of influences in miniature, first referencing tape music and dub for several minu...   [ read more ]

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Fifth album by post-rock innovators Tortoise. Largely written in the studio and crafted over the course of a full year at Soma Studio. Over the past decade, they've produced some of the most innovative and influential albums in music From the deep and understated rhythms and tones on their 1996 landmark "Millions Now Living Will Never Die," to the bombastic rock of 2001's "Standards," Tortoise have always been ahead of their time. This new release finds the band doing what they do best; building and rebuil...   [ read more ]

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