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Then we realized it would totally work. Throughout, the songs transcend expectations as often as they delight the eardrums. They're all pretty different in the sense that at first they were just heads and solos.

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Product Identifiers

Record Label
Thrill Jockey, TJ
UPC
0790377040616
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21046066731

Product Key Features

Release Year
2016
Format
Record
Genre
Rock
Artist
Tortoise
Release Title
Catastrophist

Dimensions

Item Height
0.10 in
Item Weight
0.60 lb
Item Length
12.31 in
Item Width
12.23 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks
11
Tracks
1.1 The Catastrophist 1.2 Ox Duke 1.3 Rock on Vocals - Todd Rittmann Written-By - David Essex 1.4 Gopher Island 1.5 Shake Hands with Danger 1.6 The Clearing Fills 2.1 Gesceap 2.2 Hot Coffee 2.3 Yonder Blue Vocals - Georgia Hubley Written-By - Georgia Hubley, Tortoise 2.4 Tesseract 2.5 At Odds with Logic
Number of Discs
1
Notes
Simply put, Tortoise has spent nearly 25 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago-based instrumental quintet has nodded to dub, rock, jazz, electronica and minimalism throughout it's revered and influential six-album discography, the resulting sounds have always been distinctly, even stubbornly, their own. It's a fact that remains true on The Catastrophist, Tortoise's first studio album in nearly seven years. And it's an album where moody, synth-swept jams like the opening title track cozy up next to hypnotic, bass-and-beat missives like Shake Hands With Danger and a downright strange cover of David Essex's 1973 radio smash Rock On sung by U.S. Maple's Todd Rittman. Also included is the bittersweet, honest-to-goodness soul ballad Yonder Blue, sung by Yo La Tengo's Georgia Hubley. We'd finished the track and decided it would be good to have vocals on it, recalls McEntire. Robert Wyatt was our first choice, but he had just retired and politely said no. We were discussing asking Georgia to do something, but not that track in particular. Then we realized it would totally work. Throughout, the songs transcend expectations as often as they delight the eardrums. Tortoise, comprised of multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Doug McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker, has always thrived on sudden bursts of inspiration. And for The Catastrophist, the spark came in 2010 when the group was commissioned by the City of Chicago to compose a suite of music rooted in it's ties to the area's noted jazz and improvised music communities. Tortoise then performed those five loose themes at a handful of concerts, and when we finally got around to talking about a new record, the obvious solution to begin with was to take those pieces and see what else we could do with them, says McEntire, at whose Soma Studios the band recorded the new album. It turned out that for them to work for Tortoise, they needed a bit more of a rethink in terms of structure. They're all pretty different in the sense that at first they were just heads and solos. Now, they're orchestrated and complex. As ever, Tortoise has conjured sounds on The Catastrophist that aren't being purveyed anywhere else in music today. There's a deeply intuitive interplay between the group members that comes only from two decades of experimentation, revision and improvisation. And at a time when our brains are constantly bombarded by myriad distractions, The Catastrophist reminds us that there's something much greater out there. All we have to do is listen.

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