Tortoise - Touch country leaving space for the soundscapes

leaving space for the soundscapes - and then

the peerless ten-minute opus Cold Little Heart evokes the haze of Pink Floyd in its unhurried slow-burn

The highly anticipated follow-up to Thee Sacred Souls' breakout 2022 self-titled debut

His next work as a solo artist was the equally remarkable and ground-breaking album Trans Harmonic Nights

has stirred yet is not shaken

Tortoise - Touch country leaving space for the soundscapesWith 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