{"id":6069,"date":"2025-10-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/tortoise-touch-album-review\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:00:00","slug":"tortoise-touch-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/tortoise-touch-album-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortoise\u2019s Slow, Steady Roll Continues On \u2018Touch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First, we need to note that Tortoise releasing a record with anyone other than Thrill Jockey after a 30-plus-year relationship is a shocker for a group not known for dramatic changes. It\u2019s akin to Autechre abandoning Warp! Anyway, the important thing about Tortoise is that their last two albums before the International Anthem\/Nonesuch-reared Touch<\/em> \u2014 2009\u2019s Beacons of Ancestorship<\/em> and 2016\u2019s The Catastrophist<\/em> \u2014 have been among their most vital and inventive, an unusual trajectory for a group well into their fourth decade.<\/p>\n

For all of their cred as post-rock pioneers, Tortoise at this point seems like a casual, part-time project \u2014 either that or they spend many meticulous years honing material for their records. But the truth is, all five members stay busy in myriad other projects, especially guitarist Jeff Parker, who\u2019s become a prime mover in avant-jazz circles. For Touch<\/em>, their eighth studio LP (could the title reference synth magus Morton Subotnick\u2019s 1969 album?), they\u2019ve regrouped for another subtle advance in their evolution.<\/p>\n

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