{"product_id":"tortoise-touch","title":"Tortoise - Touch [140G\/ OBI Strip]","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing. With \u003cem\u003eTouch\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eMillions Now Living Will Never Die \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eTNT, Touch\u003c\/em\u003e is perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise's unapologetic embrace of grand gesture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAerodynamically 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 -\u003cem\u003e Touch\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Vexations\u003cbr\u003e2 Layered Presence\u003cbr\u003e3 Works and Days\u003cbr\u003e4 Elka\u003cbr\u003e5 Promenade À Deux\u003cbr\u003e6 Axial Seamount\u003cbr\u003e7 A Title Comes\u003cbr\u003e8 Rated Og\u003cbr\u003e9 Oganesson\u003cbr\u003e10 Night Gang\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AMS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181244956846,"sku":"075597895001","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/6118\/0334\/files\/4457149-3470612.jpg?v=1763846994","url":"https:\/\/morrowrecords.com\/products\/tortoise-touch","provider":"Morrow Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}