Tortoise - Touch

1LP Vinyl -  IARC0099

Tortoise return with Touch, their first album in nearly a decade. Led by the single 'Layered Presence', the record balances taut rhythmic pulses with searching melodic themes, expanding the band’s post-genre vocabulary.

Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire continue their collaborative approach, producing music where experimentation overrides ego. Echoes of their classic jazz-infused ambience remain, but Touch embraces bolder gestures — reshaped krautrock grooves, electronic rave-ups, and cinematic western flourishes, all tied together by the band’s distinct logic.

Now based across Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago, the group forged the album as an act of reconnection. It includes 'Oganesson', an “off-kilter, 7/4 funk tune with a spy-movie ambience” (New York Times), previously reworked on the Oganesson Remixes EP by Saul Williams, Heba Kadry, Patrick Carney, Broken Social Scene, and Makaya McCraven.

Condition:

Media: Mint (M)

Sleeve: Mint (M)

Track List: 

1. Vexations
2. Layered Presence
3. Works and Days
4. Elka
5. Promenade à deux
6. Axial Seamount
7. A Title Comes
8. Rated OG
9. Oganesson
10. Night Gang