TORTOISE - Touch LP Avantgarde It is now evident that

It is now evident that the use of music for its ability to alter mind states and for its effectiveness as a therapeutic aid was music’s original purpose and an important concept of these mystery schools

Objects in Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear

Like its predecessor

Through such groups as the drudge-rock Cheyenne and experimental Primitive Trails

12 songs that mark the bands progression going from the early raw punk of 13 Songs and Repeater to the sophistication of Red Medicine

TORTOISE - Touch LP Avantgarde It is now evident that"Touch" is the first new album from the groundbreaking post everything icons Tortoise since 2016. 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