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Tortoise: A Lazarus Taxon
by AAJ Staff
Tortoise celebrates its fourteenth anniversary this year with this four-disc box set of rarities and live performances, and it's just as strong as any other release the group has put out. That's saying something, given the quality of what the Chicago outfit has put on wax. Critics and fans have always struggled with a way to ...
Tortoise: It's All Around You
by AAJ Staff
There's always been something dreamy about Tortoise's fusion of rock, improvisation, and studio manipulation, and that quality reaches an all-time high with It's All Around You. In the intervening period since 2001's rough- edged Standards was released, the members of this Chicago collective have pursued a number of other projects--what is a side project, anyway?--ranging from ...
Tortoise: It's All Around You
by Mark Corroto
These days the rantings of prophets and first class doom sayers are all but coming true. I’m not getting on a soapbox here, but the future of civilization (actually our civilization) is tending to mimic or at least adopt the predictions of the movie Koyaanisqatsi. Our living environment has become packaged, sealed, and artificially scented.
Standards
By Tortoise
Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2001
Track listing: Seneca; Eros; Benway; Firefly; Six Pack; Eden 2; Monica; Blackjack; Eden 1; Speakeasy.
Tortoise: Standards
by AAJ Staff
With its '94 self-titled release, Chicago's wunderband Tortoise carved out a comfortable niche for the genre now known as post-rock. In the intervening years, other groups have borrowed from Tortoise's seminal ideas, but precious few have managed to get it right. Several sides later, Tortoise is still redefining the magic. The title of Standards ...
