Tortoise - Touch (LP)

Artist:: Tortoise
Title:: Touch
Label:: International Anthem Recording Company
Catalog#:: IARC0099LP
Format:: 1 x Vinyl LP, Album
Country:: Worldwide
Released:: 2025

Media Condition:: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition:: Mint (M)

The first new album from the groundbreaking group since 2016.

£24.95

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IARC99LP

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Description

With Touch, the Tortoise bandmembers — Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire — harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity.

While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise's unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise's now-signature internal logic — equally alluring and confounding, a puzzle to be savored rather than solved.

The stylistic diversity is also a reflection of the band's current operating circumstances: With two members now in Los Angeles, another in Portland, and just two remaining in the band's Chicago hometown, their creative process has shifted dramatically from when they lived together in a loft space in the late 1990s, honing their sound over endless hours of collective experimentation.

Recorded between the three cities — Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago — Touch is the result of an intentional effort by these five musicians to reconnect, recenter, and reinvigorate their sound for what is perhaps the group’s most diverse release to date.

Tracklist

A01	Vexations
A02	Layered Presence
A03	Works and Days
A04	Elka
A05	Promenade à deux
B06	Axial Seamount
B07	A Title Comes
B08	Rated OG
B09	Oganesson
B10	Night Gang

More Information

Genre	Electronic, Rock, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Abstract
Companies	Recorded At Flora Recording & Playback Recorded At 64 Sound Recorded At Electrical Audio Mixed At Soma Electronic Music Studios Mastered At Elysian Masters Manufactured By K7 Music GmbH Lacquer Cut At SST Brüggemann GmbH
Credits	Cello - Skip Vonkuske Design [Collage Image] - Paw Grabowski Design [Scorpion Sculpture] - Martin McEntire Field Recording - Tucker Martine Lacquer Cut By - Daniel Krieger Layout - Jeremiah Chiu Mastered By - Dave Cooley Photography By [Scorpion] - Heather Cantrell Recorded By - John McEntire Viola - Marta Sofia Honer Written-By, Performer - Tortoise
Identifiers	Barcode 789993995899 Matrix / Runout IARC0099LP A1 // - 66616 - I // Kr SST Matrix / Runout IARC0099LP B1 // - 66616 - // Kr SST