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Tortoise: Beacons Of Ancestorship

Read "Beacons Of Ancestorship" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
June 17, 2009

Beacons Of Ancestorship is the first release in five years from revolutionary post rock innovators Tortoise and the sixth full-length record of their almost two decade existence. A longstanding Chicago institution, Tortoise single-handedly spawned the post rock genre in the early nineties--a post punk fusion of Krautrock, minimalism, dub, electronica, world music, and avant-garde jazz.

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A Lazarus Taxon

By Tortoise

Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2006
Track listing: CD1: Gamera; The Source of Uncertainty; Blackbird; Sexual For Elizabeth; To Day Retreival; Whitewater; Didjeridoo; Autumn Sweater; Wait; A Grape Dope; Restless Waters; Vaus; Blue Station. CD2: Madison Area; TNT (Takemura Remix); Why We Fight; Elmerson, LIncoln, and Palmieri Peering; Goiriri; As You Said; CTA; Deltitnu; Adverse Camber; Cliff Dweller Society; Waihopai. CD3: Alcohall; Your New Rod; Cobwebbed; The Match Incident; Tin Can Puerto Rican Remix; Not Quite East of Ryan; Initial Gesture Protraction; Cornprone Brunch Watt Remix. DVD: Salt the Skies; Dear Grandma and Grandpa; Glass Museum; Seneca; Four Day Interval; The Suspension Bridge at Iguaz

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Tortoise: A Lazarus Taxon

Read "A Lazarus Taxon" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
September 18, 2006

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 ...

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It's All Around You

By Tortoise

Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2004
Track listing: It

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Tortoise: It's All Around You

Read "It's All Around You" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
May 12, 2004

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 ...

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Tortoise: It's All Around You

Read "It's All Around You" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 4, 2004

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.

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Standards

By Tortoise

Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2001
Track listing: Seneca; Eros; Benway; Firefly; Six Pack; Eden 2; Monica; Blackjack; Eden 1; Speakeasy.

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Tortoise: Standards

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 2001

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 ...

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