Tortoise "Touch" LP

140g Vinyl

• The post-everything icons' first album since 2016 - Krautrock, techno rave-ups, and spaghetti western fanfares filtered through Tortoise's singular internal logic.
• For fans of: Stereolab, Gastr del Sol, Trans Am, Isotope 217, Oval

Tortoise announces Touch, their first new album from the groundbreaking group since 2016, via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. 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.

Recorded between 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.