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90
Tortoise’s Touch is a cinematic record that is profoundly human and entirely spectral. It’s a world unto itself, filled with beautiful landmarks and perplexing questions.
6mo
80
“Post-everything” music doesn’t get any more fun than theirs.
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7mo
76
The Chicago post-rock band’s first album in nine years was recorded between three separate cities. It’s a noisy, unstable, and strangely moving listen.
7mo
76
At its best, Touch feels like a long dream. Familiar tones drift in and out, pieces of melody spark recognition, and every listener will connect with a different corner of it. It is not their most focused record, but it is alive. Thirty years in, Tortoise are still searching, still listening, still following the sound wherever it leads.
7mo
70
Tortoise continue shaping post-rock's future with 'Touch'.
7mo
68
After such a long wait for new material from the pioneering post-rock group, “Touch” feels too safe.
6mo
RECONNECTION
Post-Rock is a category into which, too often, various bands, albums, and songs are thrown, simply because they can't be labeled otherwise.
But anyone who wants to connect with the sounds that first gave rise to the term Post-Rock as a subgenre independent of others should listen to Tortoise in the '90s.
Afterward, they can, in their own judgment, try to understand whether everything that follows could be defined in the same way.
But it's also true that those ... read more
After almost a decade of quiet, the legendary post-rock band comes through with a perplexing record that has more krautrock in its DNA than anything else. Touch is crafted magnificently, but there’s just something missing.
I’ve always felt a closeness to the instrumental, jazz-informed post-rock of Tortoise, even if I haven’t reviewed any of their albums here yet. Millions Now Living is one of my all-time favourite post-rock albums, and their music in general feels very cozy. ... read more
Tortoise comes back after nearly ten years since The Catastrophist, but have they lost their touch?
Touch has all the elements that make a good Tortoise album. The foundation of the music lies in post rock, but layers of jazz influences, synthesizers, and strings are scattered throughout, just as we have come to expect from this creative group. Most of the songs here work well, at times feeling melancholic and reflective, and at others more danceable or deliberately disjointed.
That said, ... read more
ehhh i didn't love it? nice listen but really didn't wow me like the other project i've heard from them idk
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Track List
| 1 | Vexations 5:31 | 81 |
| 2 | Layered Presence 3:07 | 78 |
| 3 | Works and Days 4:16 | 76 |
| 4 | Elka 3:47 | 74 |
| 5 | Promenade à deux 4:23 | 76 |
| 6 | Axial Seamount 4:20 | 77 |
| 7 | A Title Comes 3:11 | 73 |
| 8 | Rated OG 1:56 | 70 |
| 9 | Oganesson 3:17 | 79 |
| 10 | Night Gang 5:00 | 80 |
Total Length: 38 minutes
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6mo
so stupid this was bandcamp purchase exclusive, more ppl would’ve talked about it if it wasn’t
