Tortoise - Standards (Translucent Red Vinyl-Limited)

Tortoise - Standards (Translucent Red Vinyl-Limited)Simply put, Tortoise has spent nearly 25 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago based instrumental quintet has nodded to dub, rock, jazz, electronica and minimalism throughout its revered and influential six album discography, the resulting sounds have always been distinctly, even stubbornly, their own. Its a fact that remains true on The Catastrophist, Tortoises first studio album in nearly seven years. And its an album where

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Since then the main source of inspiration has come from Ryan’s work as an academic

fans and musicians along the way

This was the real sound of The Chills

Through the trio’s meticulously detailed methods

funk and rocksteady

The Songhai empire was the last of the great empires of the Sahel

the album isn’t as insular as its predecessor

The Judges sessions were co-produced by Stetson and Shahzad Ismaily and engineered by Efrim Menuck at the Hotel2Tango

Field Music’s Tones of Town established them as one of the UK’s most sophisticated and forward thinking bands

The band used this tranquil retreat to refine their most reflective and mature batch of songs to date

perhaps best known as producer of Dan Deacon's Bromst